Arbeitspapier

Yes, managers should be paid like bureaucrats

Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulent accounts, cause considerable damage. Agency theory's insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance is a major reason for these scandals. They cannot be overcome by improving variable pay for performance, as selfish extrinsic motivation is reinforced. Based on the common pool approach to the firm, institutions are proposed which serve to raise intrinsically motivated corporate virtue. More importance is to be attributed to fixed pay and strengthening the legitimacy of authorities by procedural fairness, relational contracts and organizational citizenship behavior.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1379

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Firm Behavior: Theory
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Thema
agency theory
intrinsic motivation
crowding theory
management compensation
pay for performance
organizational citizenship
Führungskräfte
Leistungsorientierte Vergütung
Agency Theory
Motivation
Anreizvertrag
Unternehmenskultur
Theorie
intrinsic motivation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frey, Bruno S.
Osterloh, Margit
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frey, Bruno S.
  • Osterloh, Margit
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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