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040388 KU Personnel Economics I (MA) (2018S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 50 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

ACHTUNG KURSBEGINN
Donnerstag 08.03.2018 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Midterm: 26.04.2018
Endterm: 28.06.2018

Tutorium:
22.06.2018 Fr 16:45 - 18:15
23.06.2018 Sa 11:30 - 13:00
26.06.2018 Di 15:00 - 16:30 (nur bei Bedarf)

  • Thursday 08.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 15.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 22.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 12.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 19.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 26.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 03.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 17.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 24.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 07.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 14.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 21.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Friday 22.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Saturday 23.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Thursday 28.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Topics of this course include:
I. Introduction
(a) Effective vs. efficient contracting: the Salomon Brothers case
(b) Reasons for contractual incompleteness
(c) Some basic terms to describe compensation systems
II. Selection and Recruitment
(a) Setting the Base Wage
(b) Private Information and Pre-Contractual Opportunism
(c) Foundations of Adverse Selection Problems
(d) Signaling and Segmented Labor Markets
(e) Screening for Recruitment
(f) Human Capital Investments as Bonding Devices
III. Setting Incentives
(a) Forms of Incentive Pay
(b) The Basics of Effective Incentives
(c) The Trade-off in Explicit Performance Pay Contracts
(d) The LEN-Model: Developing the “Rules of Thumb” of Incentive Setting

Assessment and permitted materials

Two open-book exams (midterm and final exam).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Classroom participation is immanently relevant for examination („dieser Kurs ist
eine Lehrveranstaltung mit immanentem Prüfungscharakter“). To pass the course,
students must collect at least half of the total points of the combined two exams,
the midterm and the final exam.
Make-up exams are only available for students on sick leave (documented by
immediately handing in a doctor’s sickness note at the chair’s office) or leaves
supported by formal decision of the university, the faculty, and/or the institute. No
passing grade may be granted if the student misses more than 10% of the total
class time.

Examination topics

To study for the open-book exams it is necessary that students prepare all readings
and home-works provided by during the lecture.

Reading list

Association in the course directory

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