Unsere Gesellschaft ist eine Leistungsgesellschaft. Aber was meinen wir, wenn wir von "Leistung" sprechen? Wie wurde Leistung zu einer vermeintlich objektiven, individuellen Größe und wie haben sich soziale Beziehungen und Gefühle dadurch verändert? Warum definieren sich Menschen über ihre...

Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception of West German television in the former German...

Dieses essential widmet sich der amerikanischen und deutschen Literatur und Forschung zum Thema der leistungsorientierten Führung. Es werden wissenschaftliche Konzepte, rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und praktische Handlungsempfehlungen erläutert und in Zusammenhang gesetzt. Mit diesem essential...

The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...

While the 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study assesses the average ability of German primary school students as being higher than average, the Programme for International Student Assessment studies (2000, 2003, 2006) ranks German secondary school students at a considerably...

The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare...

The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...

The purpose of the present paper is to examine new performance management patterns in regard to their consequences for the individual identity of organizational members. In modern societies values and norms of individual performance and success play a crucial role for the constitution of...

Die Zukunft des öffentlichen Dienstes hängt von vielen Faktoren ab, u.a. von seiner Attraktivitätals Arbeitgeber, der auch zukünftig qualifiziertes Personal in Konkurrenz mit der Wirtschaftund internationalen Organisationen gewinnen können möchte. Es gibt externe, kaumbeeinflußbare...

Merit and justice / Amartya Sen -- Equality of opportunity / John E. Roemer -- IQ trends over time: intelligence, race, and meritocracy / James R. Flynn -- Genes, culture, and inequality / Marcus W. Feldman, Sarah P. Otto, and Freddy B. Christiansen -- Schooling, intelligence, and income in...

Performance fees for portfolio managers are designed to align the managers' goals withthose of the investors and to motivate managers to aquire "superior" information and tomake better investment decisions. A part of the literature analyzes performance fees on thebasis of market valuation. In...