Under team production, those who monitor individual productivity are usually the only ones compensated with a residual that varies with the performance of the team. This pattern is efficient, as is shown by the prevalence of conventional firms, except for small teams and when specialized...

Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies' fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. So what are companies getting in return...

This paper examines the ‘aftermath effect' of the new civil service pay policy on job satisfaction among teachers in Ghana. We explore an avalanche of job satisfaction theories and instruments to identify key concepts and variables in building a baseline conceptual and research model. The...

The Land and Income Tax Act 1954 was interpreted by the courts to provide a uniquely favorable tax status being granted to employee fringe benefits. The term "fringe benefit" describes those benefits passed by an employer to an employee other than the payment of wages and salaries. Tax Free...

Using Cameroonian data, this paper investigates the effects of social network on job quality. Social network is measured in terms of using friends and relatives while looking for a job. As regards to job quality, two aspects have been taken into consideration: monetary job quality which is...

This study examines differences in average weekly earnings between public sector and private sector employees in Australia. It is founded that - in aggregate and for most one-digit occupation groups - male and female public sector employees have significantly higher evarage weekly earnings than...

We estimate of the determinants of performance appraisal, profit sharing and employee share ownership schemes for a representative sample of German establishments. The results demonstrate that foreign owned establishments make more use of each of these HRM practices than domestically owned...