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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their … difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities …
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The productivity effects of profit sharing, employee ownership, stock option and team incentive plans : evidence from korean panel data
Kato, Takao; Lee, Ju-ho; Ryu, Jang-soo - 2010
(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of … complements in their productivity effects. -- profit sharing ; employee stock ownership ; team incentive ; stock option …
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The impact of teams on output, quality and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data
Jones, Derek Charles (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor) - 2007
, typically at 10 to 16% per 100 days in a team; (iv) while initially teams lead to more downtime, these costs diminish over time …; (v) the performance-enhancing effects of team membership are generally greater and more long-lasting for team members who … are solicited by management; (vi) similar relationships exist for more educated team members. These findings square with …
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Profit sharing and workplace productivity : does teamwork play a role?
Long, Richard J.; Fang, Tony - 2013
The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...
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Quitting and peer effects at work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2012
While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536706
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Do social preferences increase productivity? : Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005
participants who face a social dilemma in their daily lives (i.e., team production), we do find strong links between the social … endogeously with respect to how widely team production is utilized. -- field experiment ; social preference ; income pooling …
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Does group-based incentive pay lead to higher productivity? : evidence from a complex and interdependent industrial production process
Frederiksen, Anders; Hansen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt; … - 2022
Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...
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The effects of training on own and co-worker productivity : evidence from a field experiment
Grip, Andries de; Sauermann, Jan - 2011
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on individual worker performance before and after training....
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The impact of absent coworkers on productivity in teams
Hoey, Sam; Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022
We study how workers in production teams are affected by the temporary absence and replacement of a coworker. When a substitute coworker is absent, the remaining coworkers produce less output per working time. They compensate for this by increasing their working time at the expense of the (less...
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Variable payment schemes and productivity : do individual-based schemes really have a stronger influence than collective ones?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2023
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...
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