Essays about: "Lars-olof Strand"

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  1. 1. Retaining Knowledge Workers : A ranking of the most valuable Rewards

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för industriell ekonomi

    Author : Lars-Olof Strand; [2016]
    Keywords : Rewards; knowledge worker; motivation;

    Abstract : With the past decades of a growing trend in the western-world where knowledge workers are replacing traditional workers the importance of finding ways to attract, retain and engage the former is becoming even more challenging as the preferences of this kind of workers is totally different than for other workers. Non-monetary rewards such as achievement, autonomy and feedback have for a long time been highlighted by researchers to be of importance, yet the human relations departments (HR) still seem not to have realized the importance of such rewards and while HR strategies often are focusing on total rewards as a summary of monetary and non-monetary rewards there is a lack of an uniform ranking of the importance in between them. READ MORE