Research questions: The aim of this article is the prediction of the employee’s willingness to take over enriched tasks. Which characteristics of intrinsic or achievement motivation lead to which willingness to take over new and additional tasks, and what kind of tasks? Methods: The dimensions...

Although most jobs are initially designed by managers, employees also play an important role in this phase through a proactive behavior called 'job crafting'. It describes a bottom-up approach that consists of customizing and modifying structural, relational, and cognitive aspects of one's job...

The aim of the paper is threefold. First, we compute differences on the degree of de-routinization of job contents across a harmonized and hence comparable sample of Anglo-Saxon, many European and even Asian advanced countries. We do so by using very precise information on job contents at the...

Um dem demografischen Wandel und dem damit ansteigenden Altersdurchschnitt in deutschen Unternehmen zu begegnen, werden Maßnahmen zur Gestaltung alternsgerechter Arbeitsplätze umgesetzt. Eine dieser Maßnahmen ist die Job Rotation, unter der ein systematischer Arbeitsplatzwechsel verstanden...

The longer an agent is employed in a job, the more the principal will have learned about his ability through the history of performance. With implicit incentives, influence perceptions and effort incentives decrease over time. Rotating agents to a different job deletes learning effects about...

Part I: Great expectations -- You're digging in the wrong place -- The expectation gap -- Ask your doctor about expectation alignment dysfunction -- An intentional framework -- Part II: Three contracts -- The brand contract -- The transactional contract -- The psychological contract -- Part III:...

This paper provides new evidence about horizontal transfer and promotion using the largest available personnel panel data in Japan and interprets them from the perspective of task-specific human capital. We find that firms synchronize their employees' promotion and horizontal transfers. Then, we...

Confirmation bias, which refers to unintentional and unknowing selectivity in the use of evidence, belongs to the major problems faced by organizations. In this article, we discuss job rotation as a natural solution to this problem. In a nutshell, adopting job rotation provides an organization...

List of tables -- List of figures -- Foreword by Tara Fenwick -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- The nature of employee-driven innovation -- Employee-driven innovation: a new phenomenon, concept and mode of innovation / Steen Hoyrup -- Employee-driven innovation: operating in a...