Using Job Rotation to Extract Employee Information
Using Job Rotation to Extract Employee Information
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使用工作轮换提取员工信息
DOI：
10.1093/jleo/ewh039
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
B. Mittendorf
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文献类型：
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作者：
Anil Arya;B. Mittendorf
工作轮换是指员工定期在不同工作之间调动的做法。对工作轮换的解释和它的用法一样五花八门。一些人认为，互补性和跨任务学习可以提高生产效率，而另一些人则推测，员工对多样化的内在渴望推动了工作轮换的使用。本文提供了另一种解释。当工程师私下了解他们工作的任务的生产率时，轮换工作可能是获取他们信息的一种有效手段。每个代理自由地交流他的信息，因为任务的切换保证了他的报告不会随后被用来反对他；该报告主要用于评估进入任务的新代理。轮换工作也是有代价的--代理必须补偿与处理新任务相关的额外的不利影响。我们研究了这种权衡，并确定了工作轮换和专业化都是最优的条件。
Job rotation refers to the practice of routinely transferring employees between jobs. The explanations provided for job rotation are as varied as its uses.Some posit that complementarities and learning across tasks allow increased productive efficiency, while others speculate that employees' inherent craving for variety drives the use of job rotation. This paper provides another explanation. When agents privately learn about the productivity of tasks on which they work, job rotation can be an efficient means of eliciting their information. Each agent freely communicates his information since the switch in tasks guarantees his report will not subsequently be used against him; the report is used primarily in evaluating the new agent who moves into the task.Job rotation also comes with a cost -- agents have to be compensated for the added disutility associated with working on new tasks. We study this tradeoff and identify conditions under which job rotation and specialization are each optimal.