thesis
Wonderful and Woeful Work: Incentives, Selection, Turnover, and Workers’ Motivation
- Publication date
- 18 January 2007
- Publisher
- The starting point of this thesis has been the premise that people not solely work for
money, and that working is not an altogether dreadful experience. Although many
people will agreewith thisstatement, economic models of human behaviour at the
workplace often assume exactly the opposite. Applying the techniques used in standard
economic analysis, this thesis has examined the implications of heterogeneity
in the intrinsic motivation of workers for optimal monetary incentive schemes and
for the recruitment and selection of employees. Furthermore, the thesis has looked
into the relation between workers’ satisfaction with various aspects of their job and
their decision whether or not to search for another job, and if so, where to look for
or take up a new position. Here, we summarise the main findings and give some
suggestions for further research.