Helping under a combination of team and tournament incentives

Anastasia Danilov, Bernd Irlenbusch, Christine Harbring

We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated by a team bonus that is proportional to the output of the whole team. We compare different parameter constellations of the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment.

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Year of publication:	March 2019
Authors:	Danilov, Anastasia ; Irlenbusch, Bernd ; Harbring, Christine
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Subject:	help \| relative rewards \| team incentives \| experiment \| Theorie \| Theory \| Arbeitsgruppe \| Team \| Leistungsanreiz \| Performance incentive \| Experiment \| Anreiz \| Incentives \| Leistungsentgelt \| Performance pay \| Leistungsmotivation \| Work motivation \| Arbeitsleistung \| Job performance

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 31 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 12267
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/196765 [Handle]
Classification:	M52 - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects (stock options, fringe benefits, incentives, family support programs) ; J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods ; J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets ; L23 - Organization of Production ; C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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