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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

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Lying and Team Incentives

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

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Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence

Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...

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Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …

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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments

Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....

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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?

Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities to explain this phenomenon. We are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality...

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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...

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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …

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