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On the relevance and composition of gifts within the firm : evidence from field experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value
Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation. …
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Sorting, incentives and risk preferences : evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles (contributor);  … - 2006
The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of risk-tolerant individuals into firms using high-intensity incentive contracts. The empirical importance...
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Knowing that you matter, matters! : the interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014
the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337426
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Information provision, incentives, and attention: a field experiment on facilitating and influencing managers' decisions
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021
behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487017
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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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Performance pay and prior learning : evidence from a retail chain
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timothy J. - 2018
We run two field experiments within a large retail chain showing that the effectiveness of performance pay crucially hinges on prior job experience. Introducing sales-based performance pay for district- and later for store-managers, we find negligible average treatment effects. Based on surveys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916585
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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013
. 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 …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771729
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Employee stock purchase plans : gift or incentive? ; evidence from a multinational corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - 2014
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
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