Der folgende Beitrag analysiert das IMC-Gitter (Individual Motive Constellations) in Hinblick auf Reliabilität und Gültigkeit der faktoriellen Struktur. Das IMC-Gitter erhebt den Anspruch, Leistungs-, Macht- und Anschlussmotive simultan erheben zu können. Der Beitrag beruht auf den Daten von...

Standard models of promotion tournaments assume that firms can commit to arbitrary tournament prizes. In this paper, a firm's ability to adjust tournament prizes is constrained by the outside labor market, through the wages other firms are willing to offer to the promoted and unpromoted workers....

This paper analyses optimal contracts in a principal-agent model where the agent is intrinsically motivated at the outset and there is an endogenous relationship between the structure of incentive payments and intrinsic motivation (crowding effects). The analysis shows that crowding effects have...

A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...

Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain...

Leistungsorientierte Vergütungssyteme können mit nicht-intendierten Effekten einhergehen, die in der Personalwirtschaftslehre unter dem Stichwort der Motivationsverdrängung diskutiert werden. Die Evaluierung der Wirkung leistungsorientierter Vergütungssysteme durch Mitarbeiterbefragungen...