Strategic Promotion Tournaments and Worker Performance

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Theory and evidence in internal labor markets (2007, background): “16 In a recent analysis, DeVaro (2006a,2006b) uses a structural-estimation approach to consider simultaneously both worker-effort and firm-side predictions of tournament theory.”
Minding the Gap (2016, background): “For example, in a study of 3,510 employers, DeVaro (2006) demonstrated that larger pay spreads positively influenced employee performance.”
Getting Rid of Performance Ratings: Genius or Folly? A Debate (2016, background): “…in the same company in similar jobs is often considered to be an excellent predictor of performance after promotion (Beehr, Taber, & Walsh, 1980; DeVaro, 2006), and employees have a strong expectation that past performance should be a factor considered in promotion (De Pater, Van Vianen,…”
The influence of corporate social responsibility on employee satisfaction (2016, background): “Thus, because employee behaviour influences organizational outcomes (DeVaro, 2006; Jiang et al., 2012) and higher job satisfaction may lead to greater employee commitment to organizational goals and values (Kehoe and Wright, 2013; Zhu et al., 2014), understanding the impact of CSR on employee…”