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Employee stock purchase plans : gift or incentive? ; evidence from a multinational corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - 2014
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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Do tournaments with superstars encourage or discourage competition?
Babington, Michael; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kitchens, Carl T. - 2017
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...
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The "sales agent" problem : effort choice under performance pay as behavior toward risk
Cadsby, Charles Bram; Song, Fei; Zubanov, Nick - 2017
that show, in a very general setting, that the choice between work effort and leisure under given linear incentives depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612830
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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...
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Inputs, incentives, and self-selection at the workplace
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019
This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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Tournament incentives affect perceived stress and hormonal stress responses
Dohmen, Thomas; Rohde, Ingrid; Stolp, Tom - 2023
performance - in particular, tournament incentives - induce more stress than schemes that are independent of performance - fixed … self-reported feelings of stress and primary appraisals. We find that tournament incentives induce a stress response … incentives schemes is not a relevant criterion for sorting decisions in our experiment. Finally, we find that cortisol levels are …
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Multi-rater performance evaluations and incentives
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2024
We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and running a laboratory experiment. The model predicts that multi-rater evaluations are more precise than single-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about...
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across … ; multitasking ; incentives …
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