Ausgangspunkt ist die These, dass Universitäten und Business Schools den Studierenden sehr wenig oder gar keine Möglichkeit bieten, sich während ihres Studiums mit dem Themenkreis Wirtschafts- bzw. Management-Ethik und soziale Verantwortung (CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility) zu befassen....

Economists often interpret absenteeism as an indicator of effort. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, this paper offers a comprehensive discussion of this view by analysing various forms of job mobility. The evidence reveals a significantly negative (positive) link...

We analyze the effects of wage floors on optimal job design in a moral-hazard model with asymmetric tasks and imperfect aggregate performance measurement. Due to cost advantages of specialization, assigning the tasks to different agents is efficient. A sufficiently high wage floor, however,...

Promotion as a part of marketing that is known like a heart of organizational well functioning, has a crucial role in achievement of the organization's goals – University's goals. The purpose of this study is to identify the most important promotional and communication strategies and their...

The paper focuses on personnel marketing, which treats employees like customers as part of an innovative approach in the field of human resource management. Using primary data, the work aims to identify attributes that lead to employee satisfaction. Collected from graduates of the Faculty of...

Occupational positions can explain an important part of the differences in pay between men and women. However, a considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reasons for the gap within occupational positions and,...

We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because a...

Employees' perspectives of the company's social responsibility (SR) and the company's SR impact on employees have so far been given little attention in research. This gap is surprising since it is well known to what extent employees affect overall companies' results. They have a crucial role in...