recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample … subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the best performers …. Remarkably, workers who did not receive recognition are mainly responsible for this performance increase. This result is …

We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their … the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents …. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by … tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk …

. Finally, a quasi-experiment shows that a combination of workshops and individual coaching had measurable effects on leadership …

center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow us to estimate the impact of awards on performance. Winning an … award for voluntary work behaviors significantly increases subsequent core call center performance. The effect is short …

We study tax compliance in Slovenia using data generated in a field experiment. Small accounting companies were … to rationalize the experiment. …