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Staff rotation: a powerful weapon against corruption?
Abbink, Klaus - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001454332
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The complementary use of experiments and field data to evaluate management practices : the case of subjective performance evaluations
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2015
Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal processes, exploring the use of multiple research methods such as the analysis of personnel records, survey data, and lab and field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308995
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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment
Arni, Patrick - 2015
Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449227
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What behavioural economics teaches personnel economics
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Bessey, Donata; Pull, Kerstin; … - 2008
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Do hiring subsidies reduce unemployment among the elderly? : Evidence from two natural experiments
Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor) - 2007
We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany … of unemployed jobseekers in Germany and was specifically made available for our purposes from administrative data …. Consistent support for an employment effect of hiring subsidies can only be found for women in East Germany. Concerning other …
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Team incentives, task assignment, and performance : a field experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017
The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722656
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Team incentives, task assignment, and Performance : a field experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Souverijn, Michiel - 2017
The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776037
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Peer settings induce cheating on task performance
Bäker, Agnes; Mechtel, Mario - 2015
Recent research has shown that the presence of peers can increase individual output both in the lab and the field. This paper tests for negative side effects of peer settings. We investigate whether peer settings are particularly prone to cheating even if they do not provide additional monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530020
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Job design, learning & intrinsic motivation
Gibbs, Michael - 2021
According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of this is presented. Learning may make work less onerous, or the employee may value it in and of itself. Multitasking generates learning: performing one task increases...
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Implementation rationality : the nexus of psychology and economics at the RAND logistics systems laboratory, 1956-1966s
Klein, Judy L. - 2015 - Version 3
In October 1956, the RAND Corporation establis hed the Logistics Systems Laboratory (LSL) with the goal of using simulation to translate the broad findings of normative microeconomics into detailed, implementable pr ocedures for US Air Force oper ations. The laboratory was housed in the training...
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