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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Brown, Sarah - 2014

We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...

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'Living' Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021

We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...

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Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace

Dur, Robert - 2013

This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The contract may contain two types of incentives for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082165

Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives

Dur, Robert - 2009

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Trust and Control at the Workplace : Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe

Grund, Christian - 2009

Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by...

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Tournaments and Office Politics : Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...

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Measuring "Group Cohesion" to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production

Gaechter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...

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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution : An Experimental Investigation

Berger, Johannes - 2010

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...

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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2010

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

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The Prostitute's Allure : Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj - 2010

commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …

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