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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … the second midterm grade is 0.03s (s = the grade's standard deviation) for the recipients of recognition, and 0.15s for … (itself unaffected), and decreases with the distance to the cutoff grade for recognition, reaching a significant 0.44s for …

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Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task …. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the …

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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...

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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance

Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

in work groups. The selection effect is larger than the motivation effect. …

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High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept

Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W.S.; Wei, Xiangdong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...

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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …

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