Incentives & Productivity

Course Code
MO 619

Hours
2.25 hours
Type
Elective
Offered
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing, excluding OMBA

Incentives and Productivity --- This course applies economics to the analysis of personnel management issues. Topics covered include hiring and firing decisions, human capital and the provision of on-the-job training, task assignment, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, the provision of incentives in firms, the advantages and disadvantages of alternative compensation schemes, promotions and up-or-out contracts as incentive mechanisms, objective and subjective performance evaluation, relative performance evaluation, career-based incentives, team production, stock options and executive compensation, and the impact of labor laws on personnel management choices from an international comparative perspective.