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040388 KU Personnel Economics I (MA) (2020S)

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

service email address: opim.bda@univie.ac.at
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 60 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

This course as well as the exms will be held online via Moodle.
Midterm: 14. Mai 2020
Endterm: 25. Juni 2020

  • Thursday 05.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 19.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 26.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
    Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 23.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 30.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 07.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 14.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
    Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 28.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 04.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Thursday 18.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Thursday 25.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
    Hörsaal 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
    Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This Course will be held online via Moodle.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). The exams will be held onlline.

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.
Home work:
You receive 5 points for each submitted solution that actually contains an answer to the question and of which no copy can be found in another submitted solution. Please find further information on moodle.
Please note that all of your submissions may be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin.

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

Moodle

Association in the course directory

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