How can we understand the relationship between employer and employee? What determines the give and take of such relationships and what happens when they go wrong? This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of what is now the major way of trying to understand the...

Objective measures of performance are seldom perfect. In response, incentive contracts often include important subjective components that mitigate incentive distortions caused by imperfect objective measures. This paper explores the combined use of subjective and objective performance measures...

Beschäftigungssicherheit wird in der Literatur zur Segmentierung des Arbeitsmarktes als ein wesentliches Strukturmerkmal interner Arbeitsmärkte hervorgehoben. Diesbezüglich stellt sich die Frage, welche Vorteile das Unternehmen aus einer in diesem Segment institutionell zugesicherten...