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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467800
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Immigrant assimilation, trust and social capital
Cox, James C.; Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2010
Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688884
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Bonus payments and reference point violations
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941775
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From citizen's rights to civic responsibilities
Ronconi, Lucas - 2019
In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033462
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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2014
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380879
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Gift exchange in the workplace : money or attention?
Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor) - 2008
convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778476
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Testing for the ratchet effect : evidence from a real-effort work task
Cardella, Eric; Depew, Briggs - 2016
The "ratchet effect" refers to a phenomenon where workers whose compensation is based on productivity strategically restrict their output, relative to their capability, because they rationally anticipate that high levels of output will be met with increased or "ratcheted-up" expectations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484559
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The multi-dimensional effects of reciprocity on worker effort : evidence from a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment
Kim, Min-taec; Slonim, Robert - 2012
We examine the gift exchange hypothesis on both the quantity and quality of output using a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers were paid either a high or low wage. We find that although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534061
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A real-effort experiment on gift exchange with temptation
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2015
We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529412
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The impact of self-selection on performance
Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803276