Search Results - subject:"objective function"

Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation : An Experimental Study

Fehrler, Sebastian - 2012

Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...

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How Much Do Firms Pay as Bribes and What Benefits Do They Get? Evidence from Corruption Cases Worldwide

Cheung, Stephen Y. L. - 2012

We analyze a hand-collected sample of 166 prominent bribery cases, involving 107 publicly listed firms from 20 stock markets that have been reported to have bribed government officials in 52 countries worldwide during 1971-2007. We focus on the initial date of award of the contract for which the...

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Group goal setting in age-diverse teams : investigating the role of goal clarity and reflexivity

Davidson, Tina; Dewettinck, Koen; Baets, Shari de - 2012

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Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2012

endowments and tuition subsidies. The model proposes a specific objective function: a university maximizes its contribution to … the intellectual capital of society, valued at social returns. The objective function is enforced within the model-that is …, it leads to actions that reinforce the initial selection of the objective function. Endowments also arise naturally …

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Goals (Th)at Work – Goals, Monetary Incentives, and Workers’ Performance

Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2012

In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...

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How Much do Firms Pay as Bribes and What Benefits do They Get? Evidence from Corruption Cases Worldwide

Cheung, Stephen Yan-Leung - 2012

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Goals Gone Wild : The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting

Ordonez, Lisa D.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Galinsky, Adam D. - 2012

Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance....

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Pursuing Sustainability with the Balanced Scorecard : Between Shareholder Value and Multiple Goal Optimisation

Hansen, Erik G.; Schaltegger, Stefan - 2012

A rising awareness about the limitations of measuring organisational success merely with financial metrics has motivated researchers and practitioners to call for more holistic performance management and measurement systems. The balanced scorecard (BSC) as proposed by Kaplan and Norton is maybe...

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Fairness, Justice, Subjectivity, Objectivity and Goal Congruence in Management Control Systems

Rosanas, Josep M.; Cugueró-Escofet, Natàlia - 2012

Management control systems are intended to motivate managers to ensure that organizational goals are accomplished. They do this by rewarding and promoting people according to certain criteria. Usually, they are designed to achieve the greatest possible goal congruence, where people pursue...

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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation : An Experimental Study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012

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