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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …

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Team Incentives and Lower Ability Workers : An Experimental Study on Real-Effort Tasks

Freeman, Richard B.; Pan, Xiaofei; Yang, Xiaolan; Ye, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds …. Yet little is known about how team members with different abilities respond to compensation rules and thresholds. We …

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Peer Information and Risk-taking under Competitive and Non-competitive Pay Schemes

Brookins, Philip - 2016

Incentive schemes that reward participants based on their relative performance are often thought to be particularly risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically...

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The Causes of Peer Effects in Production : Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments

Horton, John J. - 2016

Workers respond to the output choices of their peers. What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects? Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers' expectations? We test these alternative explanations in a...

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The Effects of Wage Contracts on Workplace Misbehaviors : Evidence from a Call Center Natural Field Experiment

Flory, Jeffrey A. - 2016

Workplace misbehaviors are often governed by explicit monitoring and strict punishment. Such enforcement activities can serve to lessen worker productivity and harm worker morale. We take a different approach to curbing worker misbehavior--bonuses. Examining more than 6500 donor phone calls...

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How was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and other Emotions for US Workers

Helliwell, John F. - 2015

In this paper we estimate the size of weekend effects for seven emotions and then explore their main determinants for the working population in the United States, using the Gallup/Healthways US Daily Poll 2008-2012. We first find that weekend effects exist for all emotions, and that these...

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Working Remotely and the Supply-side Impact of Covid-19

Papanikolaou, Dimitris - 2020

We analyze the supply-side disruptions associated with Covid-19 across firms and workers. To do so, we exploit differences in the ability of workers across industries to work remotely using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We find that sectors in which a higher fraction of the...

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Kinks as Goals : Accelerating Commissions and the Performance of Sales Teams

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Yu, Lizi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the performance of small retail sales teams facing an incentive scheme that includes both a lump sum bonus and multiple accelerators (kinks where the piece rate jumps upward). Consistent with standard labor supply models, we find that the presence of an attainable bonus or kink on a...

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The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance : The Role of Fatigue for Paramedics

Brachet, Tanguy - 2010

The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...

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Wages, Employer Costs, and Employee Performance in the Firm

Holzer, Harry J. - 1989

In this paper I use data from a survey of firms to estimate the effects of a firm's wage level on several measures of its hiring costs and the characteristics and performance of its employees. These measures include the previous experience and current tenure of its employees; subjective...

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