Motivierte Mitarbeiter sind ein zentraler Erfolgsfaktor für Unternehmen. Eine wichtige Führungsaufgabe ist somit, die Motivation der Mitarbeiter in entsprechendem Maße zu verbessern bzw. zu fördern. Nachhaltige Veränderungen lassen sich aber nur dann realisieren, wenn durch entspre-chende...

The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of...

Individuals with a strong focus on opportunities believe that they will have many new goals, plans, options, and possibilities in their personal future. This dissertation consists of four empirical studies that investigated which person- and context-related factors help individuals to maintain a...

It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...