In recent years, many companies have implemented telework to improve work efficiency and quality of life for employees. Transport planners attempt to assist companies in reducing business travel time losses related to traffic congestion by stimulating telework. However, current knowledge concerning the effects of teleworking on business travel is limited. Furthermore, despite constant promotion...

In France, in the private sector as in the public sector, performance-based management tends to become a norm. Performance-based management is supposed to improve service quality, productivity and efficiency, transparency of allotted means and achieved results, and to better focus the activity of employees and of the whole organization. This text reports a study conducted for the French Ministr...

A public service motivation (PSM) inclines employees to provide effort out of concern for the impact of that effort on a valued social service. Though deemed to be important in the literature on public administration, this motivation has not been formally considered by economists. When a PSM exists, this paper establishes conditions under which government bureaucracy can better obtain PSM motiv...

The study is aimed at investigating the use of Performance appraisal (PA) in some manufacturing enterprises and private banks in Bangladesh. Some hypotheses were developed on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on the data set on individual employees, these hypotheses were tested in order to explore the impact of PA on pay and career prospects. The result indicates that PA ...

Submitted: Jun 12, 2013; Accepted: Jul 23, 2013; Published: Jul 25, 2013 Abstract: Companies around the world normally assign a portion of their benefits to their employees. This policy is used as an encouragement to increase the motivation of employees. If the profit sharing seems unfair, its expected results will be lost. In this paper, a model is developed to determine a desirable profit sha...

Economists have by large ignored the phenomena of office politics, such as collusion and favoritism, which prevail in organizations where, due to the subjectivity of performance assessments, the incentive mechanism often takes a form of tournament. This paper studies these phenomena in a stylized tournament model. It finds that favoritism cannot benefit organizations when employees are unable t...

Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye By the well established tournament literature, incomplete information regarding the employees’ productivity is essential for the rationalization of (efficiency-enhancing) tournaments. In this paper we propose an alternative rationalization of tournaments focusing on a fully informed principal whose objective is to maximize a weighted average of the ...

BYOD is a growing trend in corporate environments, where employees bring their own devices to work. Factors that have led to the growing popularity of BYOD include the benefits of work flexibility, increased productivity, and efficiency of employees. Despite these benefits, there are concerns over information security and privacy. Since BYOD allows employees to access organisational data anytim...

in today’s competitive world employees with engagement can interact with their job and have desirable job performance. since improvement of employees’ job performance is the key of efficiency in all levels of organization, investigation of variables leading to the improvement of job performance is of great importance. thus the purpose of the present research is to analyze the effect of employee...