Economic Psychology of Incentives

Alexander Pepper is Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was previously a partner at Pricewaterhousecoopers, where he held various senior management roles, including Global Leader of the Human Resource Services consulting practice from 2002-2006.

• 1. Introduction 2. Long-term incentive plans 3. Behavioural agency theory 4. Risk, uncertainty and time discounting 5. Intrinsic motivation and the crowding-out conjecture 6. Fairness as a precondition for profit-seeking 7. New design principles for executive pay