Marjaana Gunkel

Country-Compatible Incentive Design

A Comparision of Employees' Performance Reward Preferences in Germany and the USA

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Produktbeschreibung

Dr. Marjaana Gunkel's book opens a series of works published in cooperation with Deutscher Universit/ats-Verlag and Gabler. Ute Wrasmann and Claudia Splittgerber were very helpful initiating and organizing the series on the publisher's side. Anita Wilke was in charge of Marjaana Gunkel's book. Their support and cooperation is highly appreciated. The series ,,International Management Studies" aims at circulating insights from - search projects on international corporations. Most of the contributions published here will be characterized by the following features: The New Institutional Economics p- vides the theoretical framework, there is some empirical analysis - mostly based on primary data generated for the respective research project-, and the language of pub- cation can be English. All the contributions published in this series will be written in such a way that not only peers and experts in narrowly defined research fields can be reached but everybody who might be interested in learning about the topic at stake. Readers from other academic disciplines and practitioners are welcome contributors to a discourse that we want to share broadly. Also, the submission of publishable works that could contribute to this series is more than welcome.

Produktdetails

• International Management Studies
• Verlag: Deutscher Universitätsverlag / Gabler
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 85029339, 978-3-8350-0365-1
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9783835003651
• ISBN-10: 3835003658
• Artikelnr.: 20822110

Autorenporträt

Dr. Marjaana Gunkel ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin von Prof. Dr. Birgitta Wolff am Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre - Internationales Management - der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Cross-national differences in performance reward preferences
Employee motivation and institutional frameworks
Analyzing incentives in a multinational corporation
Retaining and motivating employees in Germany and the United States
Diminishing marginal utility of performance rewards
Exploratory comparison of performance reward preferences in China, Germany, Japan and the USA

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Cross-National Differences in Performance Reward Preferences — An Introduction.- Employee Motivation and Institutional Frameworks—A Literature Review.- Analyzing Incentives in a Multinational Corporation—From Data to Results.- Retaining and Motivating Employees in Germany and the United States —Hypothesis 1.- Diminishing Marginal Utility of Performance Rewards—Hypothesis 2.- An Exploratory Comparison of Performance Reward Preferences in China, Germany, Japan and the USA.- Conclusion and Outlook.