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Information and communication technology, hierarchy, and job design
Gerten, Elisa; Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias - 2022
design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more … decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate has focused on a strict dichotomy between the two possible directions. In … autonomy but also experience more control via stronger monitoring, while non-executive employees only experience more …
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Information and communication technology, hierarchy, and job design
Gerten, Elisa; Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias - 2022
design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more … decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate has focused on a strict dichotomy between the two possible directions. In … autonomy but also experience more control via stronger monitoring, while non-executive employees only experience more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013365573
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Information and communication technology, hierarchy, and job design
Gerten, Elisa; Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias - 2022
design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more … decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate has focused on a strict dichotomy between the two possible directions. In … autonomy but also experience more control via stronger monitoring, while non-executive employees only experience more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013345858
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Information and Communication Technology, Hierarchy, and Job Design
Gerten, Elisa; Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias - 2022
design of jobs. However, it still remains unclear whether these changes will lead to more centralization or more … decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate has focused on a strict dichotomy between the two possible directions. In … autonomy but also experience more control via stronger monitoring, while non-executive employees only experience more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078210
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The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W. Stanley; Wei, Xiangdong - 2013
workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases … quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can be improved with sufficient monitoring. Committed workers also produce … results thus show how a firm can refine its worker selection and monitoring options together with the payment system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329072
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The consequences of a piece rate on quantity and quality : evidence from a field experiment
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, William S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2013
workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases … quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can be improved with sufficient monitoring. "Committed" workers also produce … results thus show how a firm can refine its worker selection and monitoring options together with the payment system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196479
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The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W. Stanley; Wei, Xiangdong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases … quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can be improved with sufficient monitoring. "Committed" workers also produce … results thus show how a firm can refine its worker selection and monitoring options together with the payment system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700365
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Complementarity of performance pay and task allocation
Hong, Bryan; Küng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2016
between performance pay incentives and decentralization of decision-making authority for tasks. To address endogeneity … find systematic evidence of complementarity between performance pay and decentralization of decision-making from principals … to employees. However, adopting performance pay also leads to centralization of decision-making authority from non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219318
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Chapter 26 Agent-Based Models of Organizations
Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1273-1337). 2006
The agent-based approach views an organization as a collection of agents, interacting with one another in their pursuit of assigned tasks. The performance of an organization in this framework is determined by the formal and informal structures of interactions among agents, which define the lines...
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Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals
Gibbs, Michael; Mengel, Friederike; Siemroth, Christoph - 2021
Using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company, we compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased by roughly 30%, including a rise of 18% in working...
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