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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence Among Managers in a German Company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2013

bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …

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Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?

Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2021

High rewards or the threat of severe punishment do not only provide incentives to exert high levels of effort but also create pressure. Such pressure can cause paradoxical performance effects, namely performance decrements despite strong incentives and high motivation. By analyzing the...

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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance : A Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2018

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees'...

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Up or Out : Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2012

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of...

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Gibbs, Michael - 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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Team Incentives and Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido - 2015

We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...

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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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Working Hours and Top Management Appointments : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders - 2018

with three distinct theories: (i) human capital; (ii) rat race; and (iii) tournament. Third, guided by each theory, we go … are more beneficial for career advancement.Specifically we find: (i) for managers, working long hours will help them …

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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success : Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

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More Female Manager Hires Through More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany

Bossler, Mario - 2016

This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We … analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the … female manager hires in present leads to more female hired managers in the future. Similarly, the number of male manager …

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