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Access as a Motivational Device: Implications for Human Resource Management

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  • Pablo Arocena

    (Departamento de Gestión de Empresas, Universidad Pública de Navarra)

  • Mikel Villanueva

    (Departamento de Gestión de Empresas, Universidad Pública de Navarra)

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.

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  • Pablo Arocena & Mikel Villanueva, 2002. "Access as a Motivational Device: Implications for Human Resource Management," Working Papers 200201, Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Handle: RePEc:bbe:wpaper:200201
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