the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students …

We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain with 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance depends …. Conversely, team incentives may lead to more co-worker support or to higher peer pressure and thereby can affect the team …

Non-monetary incentives such as praise are common-place, but their effects on workers performing cognitively …

performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …

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 …