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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the first to explore the determinants of work meaningfulness. Specifically …
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explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at work. In our model, motivation decreases the disutility of exerting … needs from working enhances work meaningfulness, motivation, and effort, providing valuable insights for economic models of …
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Why do some leaders use praise as a means to motivate workers, while other leaders use social punishment? This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the prevailing labor-market conditions for workers. We show that the existence of a binding wage floor...
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While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...
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rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …
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it becomes scarce. In the second, restraint serves to conceal the actor's intrinsic motivation. In both cases, not …
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-out of intrinsic motivation, we find less-positive attitudes when emphasizing public authorities' demands and public …
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According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of … generates learning: performing one task increases productivity on related tasks. Intrinsic motivation generates a new multitask … adds a simple incentive. Incentive pay does not "crowd out" intrinsic motivation, but it does rebalance effort away from …
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This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their...
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