Country-Compatible Incentive Design A Comparison of Employees’ Performance Reward Preferences in Germany and the USA /

• Main Author: Gunkel, Marjaana (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : DUV, 2006.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Personnel management.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Human Resource Management.

Today's managers are facing challenges that stem from overseeing a workforce in foreign countries. The question arises how to compensate and motivate employees in different countries effectively and efficiently. Based on an empirical study among employees of a multinational corporation (MNC) in...

Table of Contents:

• 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.