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We evaluate a firm’s unusual, worker-centered, solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce the cost of effort rather than pushing them with performance rewards. We randomize the roll-out of the firm’s "Discover Your Purpose" intervention among 2,976 white-collar employees...

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Meaning at work

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Zingales, Luigi; Minni, … - 2025

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Meaning at work

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Minni, Virginia; … - 2025

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Job performance, productivity, and the roles of employee motivation and wellbeing in employees' work arrangement choices

Wei, Edward; Hensher, David A. - 2024

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Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance

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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?

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I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public …

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Job satisfaction and public service motivation

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A …

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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022

We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....

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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills

Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016

In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor … workforce in cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) along with its changes, and drew the following three conclusions …. First, a highly skilled workforce is the engine of urban development, increasing urban wages and population. Second, big …

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