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 …

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 conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its … interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied … by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay reduces performance unless it is accompanied by motivational talk. By …

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers … that workers' performance is about 11% higher for the same total wage when their wage is increased in two steps as opposed …

performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are typically of a vague nature. They derive their value, for instance, from …

We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract … as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, workers began planting a terrain at …

influence performance in these tasks. In a field experiment with more than 3000 participants, we document a positive effect of … bonus incentives on the probability of completion of such a task. Bonus incentives increase performance due to the reward … rather than the reference point (performance threshold) they provide. The framing of bonuses (as gains or losses) plays a …

We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract … as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, workers began planting a terrain at …

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers … that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for the same total wage when their wage is increased in two steps as opposed …

We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its … interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied … by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay reduces performance unless it is accompanied by motivational talk. By …