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Team incentives: Evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282519
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422064
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Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose Enrique; … - 2015
This study addresses the factors that determine the intensity of pay for performance schemes. The results indicate that the use of individual and group incentives boost intensity, whereas plant or firm pay for performance do not seem to affect the variable of interest. In addition, the adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307446
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Incentives for managers and inequality among workers: evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2006
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of lower-tier workers. Theory suggests that managerial incentives affect both the mean and dispersion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267490
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Social connections and incentives in the workplace: evidence from personnel data
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2008
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how the effects of social connections vary with the strength...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269058
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Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? : Evidence from Plant Level Data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, José Enrique; … - 2004
In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273743
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The diffusion of pay for performance across occupations
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, José Enrique; … - 2010
In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analyzed. Our results show that there are significant differences between occupations in the incidence of individual, group and firm or plant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275838
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Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose Enrique; … - 2016
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524972
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Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822035
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Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of lower-tier workers. Theory suggests that managerial incentives affect both the mean and dispersion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822207