Motivating Employees through Career Paths

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bar-Isaac, Heski; Levy, Raphael
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/713759
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 95-131
• 关键词: up-or-out; firm; promotion; pay; tournaments; AGREEMENTS; EMPLOYMENT; ECONOMICS; FUTURE; jobs

摘要

Firms have discretion over task allocations, which may dampen employees' career prospects and, hence, their motivation. Task assignments and worker motivation interact through the extent of labor market competition-that is, the possibility of moving to another firm. More competition enhances motivation but decreases firms' incentives to assign workers to informative tasks. One consequence is that competitive firms sometimes choose strategies that lead to intermediate competition. When the employee pool is heterogeneous, firms might choose different human resource practices that attract different kinds of workers and differentiate themselves through the career opportunities that they offer within and beyond the firm.