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incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well …
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Civil servants have a reputation for being lazy. However, people's personal experiences with civil servants frequently run counter to this stereotype. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive...
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performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …
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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
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incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance -- in particular when the incentive … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …
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, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance depends …We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain with 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …. Conversely, team incentives may lead to more co-worker support or to higher peer pressure and thereby can affect the team …
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