Similar Search Results

Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635203

Trust and control at the workplace : evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2009

Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879332

Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2009

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909134

Altruism and relational incentives in the workplace

Dur, Robert A. J.; Tichem, Jan - 2013

This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The con- tract may contain two types of incentives for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739554

Birds, birds, birds : co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Zwick, Thomas - 2019

We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job moves that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006067

Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment

Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017

We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758792

Female leadership and workplace climate

Alan, Sule; Corekcioglu, Gozde; Kaba, Mustafa; Sutter, … - 2023

Using data from over 2,000 professionals in 24 large corporations, we show that female leaders shape the relational culture in the workplace dierently than male leaders. Males form homophilic professional ties under male leadership, but female leadership disrupts this pattern, creating a less...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326874

Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality

Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016

The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an … is a strong predictor for whistleblowing. Further, employees who are more altruistic and more aware of ethical issues are … situational antecedents of whistleblowing, our experimental design offers researchers a new approach to studying organizational …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531925

Nobody likes a rat : on the willingness and consequences of reporting lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matt - 2012

prevalent and reporting is nonexistent. -- lying ; lying aversion ; whistleblowing ; social norms ; dishonesty …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665545

Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017

Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625350

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last