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On esteem-based incentives
Mazyaki, Ali; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance techniques. However, the use of shaming is controversial: critics argue that delegating punishment to a crowd can lead to mob justice and a loss of control over the size of the...
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Gift-exchange, incentives, and heterogeneous workers
Non, Arjan - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934101
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Performance measurement, expectancy and agency theory : an experimental study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006
noise in the performance measure. In contrast, expectancy theory as developed by psychologists predicts lower effort levels … for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343251
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The effect of noise in a performance measure on work motivation : a real effort laboratory experiment
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762588
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Leniency bias in long-term workplace relationships
Tichem, Jan - 2013
This paper studies how firms can efficiently incentivize supervisors to truthfully report employee performance. To this end, I develop a dynamic principal-supervisor-agent model. The supervisor is either selfish or altruistic towards the agent, which is observable to the agent but not to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226565
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Communication versus (restricted) delegation : an experimental comparison
Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia; Sloof, Randolph - 2016
This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment investigating a manager's decision whether or not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520494
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Dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay : a field experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; … - 2013
We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative … performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382591
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The effect of noise in a performance measure on work motivation
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008
This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured … than in the stable environment. This finding is in line with standard agency theory and contrasts a distinct element of … expectancy theory; noisier performance measures do not lower work motivation. …
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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives
Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2008
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Interacting agents in finance
Hommes, Cars H. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314796