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Do performance ranks increase productivity? : evidence from a field experiment
Ashraf, Anik - 2019
status associated with ranking through a randomized experiment at a Bangladeshi sweater factory. Treated workers receive …
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Peer pressure and manager pressure in organisations
Battiston, Diego; Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Kirchmaier, Tom; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014284180
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Managerial payoff and gift-exchange in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2019
We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064798
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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence
Sakha, Sahra; Grohmann, Antonia - 2016
using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434386
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The effect of social comparison on debt taking : experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Koch, Melanie - 2019
exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we perform a lab experiment designed to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139578
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Peer effects of ambition
Albert, Philipp; Kübler, Dorothea; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana - 2019
Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033501
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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection
Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019
Promotions serve two purposes. They ought to provide incentives for employees and to select the best employee for a … benefit as a manager has the strongest incentives to work hard to get promoted. This article shows how the interplay of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138859
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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 …-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a field experiment (n>1,700 participants), we vary the … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495030
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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
avoidance in a real-effort setting. Our experiment offers three main results. First, we confirm that preferences for avoidance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751477