damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We … show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members … identifies that team governance is driven by the importance of tasks that cannot be monitored. The more important these tasks …

a simple model of team production we examine the interplay of different types of contracts with social norms. We show …

provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production … induced values, which is useful for theory-testing purposes as well as for applications. …

contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. We find: First, inequity aversion alters … simple rationale for team based incentives in many environments. Fourth, the Sufficient Statistics Result is violated …. Dependent on the environment, optimal contracts may be either overdetermined or incomplete. -- contract theory ; linear …

. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are … observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …

Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis … has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … work individually without monetary incentives and are then assigned to teams of two where compensation is based on 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 …