the performance measure and its similarity (congruity, congruence) to the benefit of the manager’s employer. A necessary …

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of lower-tier workers. Theory suggests that …. In our field experiment we find that the introduction of managerial performance pay raises both the mean and dispersion …

substantial negative impact on the probability that an employee’s pay is performance contingent. …

This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean … information not only on executive compensation and firm performance but also on Chaebol affiliation) for 246 firms that were … cash compensation of Korean executives is statistically significantly related to stock market performance and that the …