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Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank
Manthei, Kathrin - 2018
We study the incentive effects of grating supervisors access to objective performance information when agents work on … objective measures but assess performance subjectively by gathering information. This incentive loss is more pronounced when the … experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …
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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
Sliwka, Dirk - 2007
An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These quot;conformistsquot; have social preferences if they believe that sufficiently many of the others do too....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778314