damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate. We …

tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …

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

choose between (low-powered) team incentives and (high-powered) individual incentives. We observe that subjects exhibiting … high trust or reciprocity in the trust game are more likely to choose team incentives. When exposed to individual … incentives, workers who chose team incentives perform worse if both the unobservable interdependency between workers and their …

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 …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …

, 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 … on a team's social cohesion. In particular, free-riding should be weaker when co-workers care more about each other …