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- Title
Examining human resource options: Does investment in employees pay off?
- Authors
Porath, Christine
- Abstract
The article presents a study on four approaches to the employment relationship in an effort to learn how different relationships affect employee attitudes and performance. The first approach offers short-term financial incentives in exchange for specific tasks accomplished by the employee. The second approach requires both the employee and employer to make open-ended and long-term investments in each other. In the third approach, known as the underinvestment approach, the employee is expected to undertake a broad number of responsibilities, while the employer reciprocates with short-term and specific monetary rewards. The fourth approach, also known as overinvestment, allows the employee to focus on a few well-specified responsibilities in exchange for lucrative rewards.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL relations; EMPLOYEE motivation; CORPORATE culture; EMPLOYEE attitudes; SOCIOLOGY of corporations; EMPLOYEE loyalty; WORK environment; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology; EMPLOYEE morale; MANAGEMENT styles
- Publication
Academy of Management Executive, 1999, Vol 13, Issue 1, p110
- ISSN
1079-5545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AME.1999.1567374