Economic Psychology of Incentives - New Design Principles for Executive Pay

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Pepper is Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was previously a partner at Pricewaterhousecoopers, where he held various senior management roles, including Global Leader of the Human Resource Services consulting practice from 2002-2006. Klappentext This book proposes a revised theory of agency, drawing on ideas from behavioural economics and built on more robust assumptions about human behaviour than the standard principal-agent model. The book proposes new design principles for executive pay, but also explains the difficulties in changing current executive pay practices. Zusammenfassung This book proposes a revised theory of agency! drawing on ideas from behavioural economics and built on more robust assumptions about human behaviour than the standard principal-agent model. The book proposes new design principles for executive pay! but also explains the difficulties in changing current executive pay practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Long-term incentive plans 3. Behavioural agency theory 4. Risk, uncertainty and time discounting 5. Intrinsic motivation and the crowding-out conjecture 6. Fairness as a precondition for profit-seeking 7. New design principles for executive pay

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• Autori: A Pepper, A. Pepper, Alexander Pepper
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137409232
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40923-2
• Pagine: 191
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Sociologia del lavoro, dell'economia e dell'industria; Management, B, Economic Sociology, Leadership, Economics, Business Strategy/Leadership, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology, Economics, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, business strategy, Management & management techniques, Occupational & industrial psychology, Management science, Industrial psychology, Development Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Business Strategy and Leadership, Palgrave Business & Management Collection