Group compensation and public announcement of performance are two common aspects of working with other people. We … opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group compensation and public announcement of performance have little effect on work … to charity, and group compensation significantly increases the share donating. The results suggest that interpersonal …

how individuals' willingness to compete is affected by group identity. We find that individuals display substantially … stronger competitiveness in within group (ingroup) matchings than in between group (outgroup) matchings or in a control setting … where no group identity is induced. We also find that the effect of group identity is stronger for subjects who participated …

's performance, but are not observed by anybody; in the last group subjects work in isolation, neither observing, nor being observed …. 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 …

employees are exogenously assigned to either a high-performing or a low-performing peer group. We find that RPI boosts … performances when employees are assigned to the low-performing group. In contrast, when assigned to the high-performing group, our … high-performing group. Analyzing subsequent performances suggests that providing self-selection options allows employees to …

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

This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … a laboratory one-shot trust game. To analyze these effects, we apply a 2x2 design. We induce group membership by letting … reduces reciprocity. -- trust ; reciprocity ; investment game ; group membership ; competition …

Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …

also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social-image motivates mainly the top-performing teams. Additional …

This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios …, ideologically motivated types are more committed and steer the group towards their preferred outcome. Heterogeneous groups disagree …