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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …
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Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
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Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Grunewald, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The behavioral relevance of non-binding default options is well established. While most research has focused on decision makers' responses to a given default, we argue that this individual decision making perspective is incomplete. Instead, a comprehensive understanding of the foundation of...
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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives. …
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Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers
Frederiksen, Anders; Lange, Fabian; Kriechel, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
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