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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … 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 the top performers. Additional monetary incentives improve all …
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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, belief design and performance
Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2015 - June 2015, revised September 2015
In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...
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More effort with less pay : on information avoidance, optimistic beliefs, and performance
Huck, Steffen; Szech, Nora; Wenner, Lukas M. - 2017
Recent behavioral models argue in favor of avoidance of instrumental information. We explore the role of information avoidance in a real-effort setting. Our experiment offers three main results. First, we confirm that preferences for avoidance of instrumental information exist, studying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751477
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The influence of an up-front experiment on respondents’ recording behaviour in payment diaries : evidence from Germany
Sieber, Susann; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015
literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …
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The returns to scarce talent : footedness and player remuneration in European soccer
Bryson, Alex; Frick, Bernd; Simmons, Robert - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880327
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Management practices, workforce selection and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475083
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Arbeitsrechtliche Hemmnisse für die Anreizwirkung flexibler Entgeltsysteme
Oechsler, Walter A. - 2001
law existing in Germany, especially in the field of wage determination. In this paper the impact of existing labor … agreements on incentive systems in Germany is analyzed. It shows, that the centralized and dense web of regulations within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428402
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The motivational cost of inequality : pay gaps reduce the willingness to pursue rewards
Gesiarz, Filip; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Sharot, Tali - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180902
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Personal bankcuptcy law, wealth and entrepreneurship : theory and evidence from the introduction of a "fresh start"
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008042