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Acces as a Motivational Device: Implications for Human Resource Management

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  • Pablo Arocena
  • Mikel Villanueva

    (Universidad Pública de Navarra)

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This paper analyzes the employment relationship on the basis of the notion of access. We argue that the degree of access provided by a job is an incentive to activate the employee’s self-actualization needs. We investigate the effect of access on the workers’ performance through an agency model and provide a number of propositions with practical implications for personnel policies. Our results are consistent with the intuition emerged from the real business practice as well as with many of the arguments on the substitutive role between monetary and non-monetary incentives frequently reported in the literature.

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  • Pablo Arocena & Mikel Villanueva, 2002. "Acces as a Motivational Device: Implications for Human Resource Management," Working Papers 0201, Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, revised Jan 2002.
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    Keywords

    Access; Agency Theory; Employment Relationship; Intrinsic Motivation.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General

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