We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that …

rewarding success, i.e., paying a bonus, increase effort in this case? I find that bonuses have not only an incentive but also …

"surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured system, where part of the salary is determined by individual … investigate and confirm the robustness of these findings. They suggest that surprise bonus payments and flexibility in the …

association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus status and the utility derived from work. After … controlling for individual heterogeneity biases, it is shown that job utility rises only in response to 'generous' bonus payments …, primarily in skilled, non-unionized, private sector jobs. Revoking a bonus from one year to the next is found to have a …