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 …

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

, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this … individual team productivity which is closely related to eigenvalue centrality; accordingly we refer to it as eigenvalue …Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team …

individual, team and relative performance are compared. Subjects conducted computerized tasks that required substantial effort …. The results show that individual and team payment induced the same effort levels. In team production free-riding occurred …