This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … to form teams with others of similar ability instead of with their friends. Introducing rank incentives however reduces … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

examining the trade-off of acting based on in-group favouritism or a performance signal when decisions are made about whom to … regarding the task. Intuitively, one would expect more favouritism if the own payoff was not affected by the performance of the … performance signal. …

conflicting forces into account. The comparative statics results suggest a link between the increased use of teams and recent …

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we … greater attention to product details, we find that membership in offline teams: (i) initially enhances individual productivity …, typically at 10 to 16% per 100 days in a team; (iv) while initially teams lead to more downtime, these costs diminish over time …

by Japanese firms (such as cross-functional offline teams and self-managed online teams). One novel finding (which is … consistent with the theory) is that the adoption of both self-managed online teams and cross-functional offline teams usually … arises in firms with shop-floor committees while the introduction of cross-functional offline teams alone often takes place …

This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the … formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage …

other in a team. Our results suggest that asymmetric teams where these benefits vary across team members are especially …