Strategic promotion tournaments and worker performance
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Strategic Promotion Tournaments and Worker Performance
Excerpt] In this analysis I study promotion schemes as human resource management strategies by which the firm can realize strategic goals by motivating workers to higher levels of effort and performance. Using information on promotions, wages, and performance for professional workers in a cross section of establishments in four metropolitan areas of the U.S., I investigate empirically the propo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Strategic Management Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0143-2095,1097-0266
DOI: 10.1002/smj.542