Wonderful and Woeful Work: Incentives, selection, turnover and workers motivation
Year: 2002
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The starting point of this thesis has been the premise that people not solely work for \\nmoney, and that working is not an altogether dreadful experience. Although many \\npeople will agreewith thisstatement, economic models of human behaviour at the \\nworkplace often assume exactly the opposite. Applying the techniques used in standard \\neconomic analysis, this thesis has examined the implications of heterogeneity \\nin the intrinsic motivation of workers for optimal monetary incentive schemes and \\nfor the recruitment and selection of employees. Furthermore, the thesis has looked \\ninto the relation between workers\\xe2\\x80\\x99 satisfaction with various aspects of their job and \\ntheir decision whether or not to search for another job, and if so, where to look for \\nor take up a new position. Here, we summarise the main findings and give some \\nsuggestions for further research.
Author: Josse Delfgaauw
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1701254325