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We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and …-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about employee performance. Our controlled laboratory experiment confirms … performance. …
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the performance measure and its similarity (congruity, congruence) to the benefit of the manager's employer. A necessary …
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Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...
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This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being … how age diverse groups affect individual performance in professional golf tournaments. The results show that peer and … superior evaluations as well as individual performance are lower in age diverse groups. Further evidence suggests that these …
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Building on job matching theory, we model the effect of collective turnover on workplace performance as the total of … turnover level. The resulting theoretical turnover-performance relationship is generally curvilinear, nesting all the hitherto …
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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …
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The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...
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paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …
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politician salaries on their performance using a unique law change implemented in 2012 in Turkey. Specifically, the members of … on the performance of the retired MPs. In particular, the overall performance of these MPs was lowered by 12.3 percent of … MPs reduce their performance is through absenteeism. …
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This study addresses the factors that determine the intensity of pay for performance schemes. The results indicate that … the use of individual and group incentives boost intensity, whereas plant or firm pay for performance do not seem to … financial measures are not significant or have a negative effect on the intensity of pay for performance. …
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