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...

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...

Aktuelle Herausforderungen im deutschen Gesundheitswesen erfordern tief-greifende Veränderungen im Unternehmen Krankenhaus, auch Leitungen im Pflegedienst sehen sich bei der Führung von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern zunehmend vor neue Herausforderungen im Change-, im Personal- und im...