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Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance
Krekel, Christian; Ward, George; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986405
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How does shared capitalism affect economic performance in the UK?
Bryson, Alex (contributor); Freeman, Richard B. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841909
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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 …
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340265
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Leadership styles and labor-market conditions
Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaloy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2021
Why do some leaders use praise as a means to motivate workers, while other leaders use social punishment? This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the prevailing labor-market conditions for workers. We show that the existence of a binding wage floor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500507
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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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Material incentive motivation and working memory performance of kindergartners : a large-scale randomized controlled trial
Warabud Suppalarkbunlue; Sartja Duangchaiyoosook; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431604
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How does innovation affect worker well-being?
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2009
We explore the effects of management innovations on worker well-being using private sector linked employer-employee data for Britain. We find management innovations are associated with lower worker well-being and lower job satisfaction, an effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894425
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Do higher wages come at a price?
Bryson, Alex; Barth, Erling; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664092
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The evolution of the modern worker : attitudes to work
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2010
British workforce. Many of the findings are broadly positive, particularly when compared with a picture of deterioration in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772900