assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices …. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …

this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production … and report on two experiments that provide supportive evidence. -- incentives ; incentive reversal ; team production …

provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …

workers regularly overstate their own contribution to the joint team output. Misreporting seems to spread distrust within the … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with … workers' actual contributions to the team output is beneficial for the success of gift-exchange relationships. Yet, workers …

We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of team incentives on team performance … increases with the team's social cohesion, because social cohesion reduces free-riding behavior. In addition, team incentives …

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …

We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model … we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite … intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated …

dual-processing and the origins of human cooperation. …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize and …