We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our … the source and degree of information about individual efforts between treatments, we see that precise knowledge about …

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … gossip, and that noisy gossip (where information transmission from third parties to trustors can fail) still increases … efficiency, but less so than if information transmission is undisturbed. …

networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort … comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two … employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in isolation from effort comparison information does not appear to affect …

information about the deception of his peers. The experimental data confirm this. We conclude that concern for relative standing …