Anti-Social Behavior in Profit and Nonprofit Organizations

Emmanuelle Auriol, Stefanie Brilon, 14 June 2012

While nonprofit organizations take advantage of the motivation of 'good' workers, they are more vulnerable than profit-oriented organisations to anti-social behavior: 'bad' workers only join them to behave badly. This paper looks at how mission-oriented organisations can deter destructive workers while maintaining the intrinsic motivation of committed employees.

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URL: www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP9009.asp
Topics: Labour markets
Tags: anti-social behaviour, candidate selection, motivated agents, nonprofit organisations

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