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Working from home and performance pay : individual or collective payment schemes?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2024
Working from home reduces real-time visibility of employees within the physical space of the workplace. This makes it difficult to monitor employees' work behavior. Employers may instead monitor employees' outputs and provide incentives through performance pay. The crucial question is what type...
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Variable payment schemes and productivity : do individual-based schemes really have a stronger influence than collective ones?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2023
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...
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Variable payment schemes and productivity : do individual-based schemes really have a stronger influence than collective ones?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2023
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306872
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Working from Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2024
Working from home reduces real-time visibility of employees within the physical space of the workplace. This makes it difficult to monitor employees' work behavior. Employers may instead monitor employees' outputs and provide incentives through performance pay. The crucial question is what type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047281
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Works councils and employer attitudes toward the incentive effects of HRM practices
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2016
A growing number of econometric examinations show that works councils substantially shape the personnel policy of firms in Germany. Firms with works councils make greater use of various HRM practices. This gives rise to the question of whether employers view the shaping of personnel policy...
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Bonuses, profit-sharing and job satisfaction : the more, the better?
Clemens, Marco - 2024
Managers frequently offer unconditional bonuses and profit-sharing payments to their employees. The isolated effects of the former payment type on job satisfaction, in particular, have received little empirical attention. This study uses German panel data and shows that, even when total income...
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Was Sarbanes–Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation
Gayle, George-Levi; Li, Chen; Miller, Robert - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of regulatory interventions on contracting relationships within firms by examining the impacts of the Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) Act on CEO compensation. Using panel data of the S&P 1500 firms, it quantifies welfare gains from a principal–agent model with hidden...
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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2006
How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the … economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations … with and without bonuses awarded to the highest contributors in teams. A purely team-based compensation scheme induces …
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Compensation and Competition for Talent : Talent Scarcity or Incentives?
Giannetti, Mariassunta - 2014
We show that long-term compensation is associated with higher pay in the financial industry and the legal sector. Then, using a detailed survey of law school graduates, we explore why firms use long-term compensation. We find that individuals with jobs that make them highly visible and that...
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Pay enough, don’t pay too much or don’t pay at all? : the impact of bonus intensity on job satisfaction
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2010
Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus status and the utility derived from work. After controlling for individual heterogeneity biases,...
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