A crowdsourced nickel-and-dime approach to analog OBM research: A behavioral economic framework for understanding workforce attrition.
Incentives are a popular method to achieve desired employee performance; however, research on optimal incentive magnitude is lacking. Behavioral economic demand curves model persistence of responding in the face of increasing cost and may be suitable to examine the reinforcing value of incentives on...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 106; no. 2; pp. 134 - 145 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
9/1/2016
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