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How do labor representatives affect incentive orientation of executive compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2016
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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Information provision, incentives, and attention: a field experiment on facilitating and influencing managers' decisions
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021
The core role of managerial accounting is to provide information to facilitate managers' decisions and influence their … experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision … different behavioral channels. In particular, managers make use of the information provided by placing higher-margin products …
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Performance pay and applicant screening
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2017
Using German establishment data, we show that the relationship between intensity of performance pay and intensity of applicant screening depends on the nature of production. In establishments with increased multitasking, performance pay is positively associated with applicant screening. By...
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Output-based pay: incentives, retention or sorting?
Lazear, Edward P. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
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The dispersion of employees' wage increases and firm performance
Grund, Christian (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In this contribution we examine the interrelation between intra-firm wage increases and firm performance. Previous studies have focused on the dispersion of wages in order to examine for the empirical dominance of positive monetary incentives effects compared to adverse effects due to fairness...
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Team incentives and performance : evidence from a retail chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krüger, Miriam; … - 2015
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...
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Pay for locally monitored performance? : a welfare analysis for teacher attendance in Ugandan primary schools
Cilliers, Jacobus; Kasirye, Ibrahim; Leaver, Clare; … - 2016
Public sector organizations often rely on reports by local monitors that are costly to verify and that serve twin objectives: to incentivize agent performance, and to provide information for planning purposes. Received wisdom has it that pay for locally monitored performance (P4LMP) will result...
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Talking about performance or paying for it? : evidence from a field experiment
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2019
experiment in a retail chain. In the performance pay treatments, managers receive a bonus for profit increases. In the … performance review treatments, managers have regular meetings with their supervisors discussing their activities to increase …
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Impact of caregiver incentives on child health : evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in Indi
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments...
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