Social Legal Mechanisms of Work Motivation

Work Motivation

During 1992 and 1993, I undertook a field study in the Northeast of the United States to learn why wages and salaries seldom fall during recessions.1 I interviewed more than 330 business people, labor leaders, counselors of unemployed workers, labor market intermediaries (headhunters), labor lawyers, and management consultants. The purpose of the study was exploratory; much of my effort went in...

Mechanisms of Legal Effect: Perspectives from Social Psychology

instrumentality theories of work motivation

employees are seldom passive observers of the events that occur in the work place. they form impressions of others and the events that affect them. the problem of how to motivate employees has puzzled and frustrated managers for generations however, the topic has received considerable and sustained attention in recent decades different motivational theories are developed and the related researc...

Work motivation , institutions , and performance

In this paper we study experimentally four remedies to overcome inefficiencies that arise from the incompleteness of contracts. These remedies are reciprocity, repeated game effects, social embeddedness, and incentive contracts. In our baseline treatment we find that reciprocity is a powerful contract enforcement device. A second experiment establishes that repeated game effects interact with r...

Fitness to work: legal pitfalls.

Medical examinations for fitness to work are undertaken by the specialist and the nonspecialist occupational physicians alike. An assessment done negligently in such a capacity will expose physicians to legal risks, even if they are not specialist occupational physicians. This is not unlike negligent care given in the traditional therapeutic care setting. Much of the case law governing legal di...