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The effect of announced downsizing on workplace performance : evidence from a retail Chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Zubanov, Nick - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Mutual monitoring in teams : theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2006
requires reasonably accurate public information concerning the behavior of each player. We provide a model of team production … willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group … reciprocity in teams. -- team production ; public good ; monitoring ; punishment ; experiment …
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
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 …
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Profit sharing and peer reporting
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea; Akbar, Prottoy - 2016
workers has a positive impact on work team and firm performance. We examine one possible resolution to this puzzle by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476533
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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the...
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Work meaningfulness and effort
Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024
Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...
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Residential peer effects in higher education: does the field of study matter?
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); De Paola, Maria (contributor) - 2008
Economists have a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying reduced-form college peer effects. In this paper we explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when earnings reflect individual educational performance as well as the field of study selected at...
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Run for fun : intrinsic motivation and physical performance
Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave …
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Incentives for cooperation in teams: sociality meets decision rights
Butz, Britta; Guillén, Pablo; Harbring, Christine - 2021
We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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Unions as insurance : employer-worker risk sharing and workers' outcomes during COVID-19
Braakmann, Nils; Hirsch, Boris - 2023
We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
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