How a “Pay-to-Quit” Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Companies often have a hard time determining how motivated or committed their employees are, because employees know it goes against their own interests to declare themselves unmotivated or uncommitted. The solution to this problem is for companies to put incentives in place that encourage employees to reveal how they actually feel. In this article, the author, a behavioral economist, describes an incentive plan that has … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Uri Gneezy | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Compensation, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Gender and Competition: Do Competitive Environments Favor Men More Than Women?
From evolutionary biology to discrimination to personal preferences, science and society have offered many reasons for why women have not caught up with men in the workforce. New research suggests that part of the answer lies in the different ways men and women react to the incentive of competition.
Content: Article | Author: Uri Gneezy | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Human Resources, Women in Business