Acces as a Motivational Device: Implications for Human Resource Management

Pablo Arocena () and Mikel Villanueva
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Mikel Villanueva: Universidad Pública de Navarra

No 201, Working Papers from Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Access; Agency Theory; Employment Relationship; Intrinsic Motivation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 J20 L20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2002-01, Revised 2002-01
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Published in Working Papers at the Department of Business, February 2002 pages 1-26

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