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We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...
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If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...
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which individuals participate in a real-effort tournament and can sabotage each other. We find that AA does not necessarily … result in higher effort. High performers that already experienced an existing AA-free tournament reduce their effort levels … after the introduction of the AA policy. Additionally, we observe less sabotage under AA when the tournament started …
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and (2) choosing project teams to work with. Both of these choices are typically pre-determined in hierarchies and self … separate and joint effects of granting autonomy in both choosing teams and choosing ideas compared to a pre-determined base …
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This project studies collaboration in highly skilled, nationally diverse teams. An unexpected international political … quantify the role of social, identity-driven, costs for performance and formation of diverse teams. Using microdata from GitHub …
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-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with … female task and men more often for the stereotypically male task. Subjects do not believe that homogeneous teams perform …
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We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
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