plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study …The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured …

This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together … productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members … encourage cooperation may actually hurt morale, by convincing opportunistic team members to imitate and later take advantage of …

truthful. Still, the principal will always include such a bonus in the optimal contract, and possibly complement it with a team …

maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …

for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …

threat of terminating them from the team (Alchian and Demsetz, 1972). We extend a standard weakest link experiment with a …One acclaimed role of managers is to monitor workers in team production processes and discipline them through the … manager that can decide to replace some of her team members at a cost. The amount of contractual commitment ("termination …