The need to empower employees to respond in a timely and innovative manner to customer’s requests and problems has been acknowledged as a source of competitive advantage by service managers. Hence, researchers and practitioners have proposed that empowered behaviour should be rewarded. However, research on the impact of tangible rewards on intrinsically motivated behaviour, such as empowered or...

OBJECTIVES The study has aimed to identify the relations between the supplementary person-organization fit (P-O fit) and the perceived stress among managerial staff, with special regard to the mediating role of the effort-reward balance. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 715 middle-level managers, aged 25-64 years old, employed in large companies. To measure the selected vari...

Reward feedback elicits a brief increase in power in the high-beta frequency range of the human electroencephalogram (EEG) over frontal areas of the scalp, but the functional role of this oscillatory activity remains unclear. An observed sensitivity to reward expectation (HajiHosseini, Rodríguez-Fornells, and Marco-Pallarés, 2012; [2]) suggests that reward-related beta may index a reward predic...

BACKGROUND The rate of ageing can differ considerably between individuals. This might result in major differences between calendar age (CA) and biological age (BA). AIMS To identify work- and health-related predictors of the discrepancy between CA and BA. METHODS The sample analysed in this study consisted of 371 subjects of different occupational groups (teachers, office workers, nursery s...

Stochastic dynamic programming models are extensively used for sequential decision making when outcomes are uncertain. These models have been widely applied in different business contexts such as inventory control, capacity expansion, cash management, etc. The objective in these models is to deduce optimal policies based on expected reward criteria. However, in many cases, managers are concerne...

Using a database of branch managers in retail banks, this study finds some empirical support for the two main predictions of Jensen and Meckling’s (1992) theory on organizational design choices: a) the allocation of decision rights to branch managers is associated with control systems that measure their performance and reward them based on these performance measures, and b) these decision right...

This study examined the effects of employee self-enhancement motives on job performance behaviors (organizational citizenship behaviors and task performance) and the value of these behaviors to them. The authors propose that employees display job performance behaviors in part to enhance their self-image, especially when their role is not clearly defined. They further argue that the effects of t...