Examining human resource options: Does investment in employees pay off?
研究了四种雇佣关系模式（短期激励、长期互投、投资不足、过度投资）对员工态度和绩效的影响，帮助管理者理解不同投资策略的效果。
The article presents a study on four approaches to the employment relationship in an effort to learn how different relationships affect employee attitudes and performance. The first approach offers short-term financial incentives in exchange for specific tasks accomplished by the employee. The second approach requires both the employee and employer to make open-ended and long-term investments in each other. In the third approach, known as the underinvestment approach, the employee is expected to undertake a broad number of responsibilities, while the employer reciprocates with short-term and specific monetary rewards. The fourth approach, also known as overinvestment, allows the employee to focus on a few well-specified responsibilities in exchange for lucrative rewards.