University Press of America
Pages: 220
Trim: 8 x 9
978-0-7618-3964-4 • Paperback • January 2008 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
Phil Grant is a management consultant and Professor of Management at Husson College in Bangor, Maine. He is a former Dean and Department Chair at Husson, and has helped more than 100 prominent organizations improve management of the human resource. Professor Grant has written and published ten books and over 165 articles on human performance in organizations. Among his most outstanding creative achievements are the founding of the Law of Escalating Marginal Sacrifice, the discovery of 132 plus major management uses for properly prepared job descriptions, and the creation of a unique job design-based performance model.
Part 1 Key Features
Part 2 List of Figures
Part 3 Preface
Part 4 Acknowledgements
Chapter 5 The Effort-Net Return Model of Motivation and Satisfaction
Chapter 6 The Law of Escalating Marginal Sacrifice and its Corollaries
Chapter 7 Interpreting Motivation Phenomena with the Effort-Net Return Model
Chapter 8 The Nuances of Penalty Functions
Chapter 9 Job Design and Ability as Determinants of Employee Motivation
Chapter 10 Integrating the Theory of the Firm and the Theory of Individual Behavior
Chapter 11 Adjusting Reward Functions in Response to Productivity and Cost Change
Chapter 12 Designing Incentive Systems to Maximize Profitability
Chapter 13 Optimizing the Distribution of Constrained Effort
Chapter 14 Goal Selection and Employee Motivation Under Uncertainty
Chapter 15 Motivation Strategies and Tactics from ENR
Chapter 16 Coupling Functions and Perceived Utility
Part 17 Bibliography
Part 18 Index
Part 19 About the Author