damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate. We …

provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers. -- incentives ; attention ; salience ; communication ; field …

. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are … observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …

. Incentives did not reduce performance there either. Comparing individuals with groups we find that team-work facilitates creative …

observable. A team incentive scheme, where each agent is paid a bonus for aggregate output above a threshold, is optimal in case … (a). The team's efficiency may increase considerably with size if outputs are negatively correlated. Under (b) a … performance. The two cases reveal that it may be optimal to organize production as a team where only aggregate output is …

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this … purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes-a "team"-as endowed with individual and privately held … information on the joint production process. Once individual information is shared, team members decide individually on the effort …