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informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this …
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of instrumental information exist, studying information structures on performance pay. Second, information avoiders …
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This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We...
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through …-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer …
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influence of institutional shareholders. Our findings also suggest that the adoption of ESG variables in managerial performance … measures is accompanied by improvements in ESG performance and meaningful changes in the compensation of executives. …
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In a tedious real effort task, agents can choose to receive information about their piece rate that is either low or ten times higher. One third of subjects deliberately decide to forego this instrumental information, revealing a preference for information avoidance. Strikingly, agents who face...
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Assuming that people care not only about what others do but also on what others think, we study respect as a non-monetary source of motivation in a context where the length of the employment relationship is endogenous. In our three-stage gift-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect...
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employee's performance was poor. The justification assures the employee that the manager has not distorted the evaluation … downwards. For good performance, however, the manager pays a constant high wage without justification. The empirical literature … demonstrates that subjective evaluations are lenient and discriminate poorly between good performance levels. This pattern was …
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managerial decision rights and performance-based promotions leads to a situation often referred to as the Peter principle … performance-based promotions and restricting managerial decision rights. …
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performance, and thus as a solution to the principal-agent dilemma created by the separation of ownership and management in …
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