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In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...
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selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic leadership style by ignoring preferences of the other team members. Yet … assigned leaders to use a democratic leadership style by reaching team consensus. Male leaders and leaders influenced by group …We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders …
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work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …
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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their … difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities …
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leader' model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge …. We show that the most successful team leaders in F1 motor racing are more likely to have started their careers as drivers …
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Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...
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This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...
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How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the … economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations … with and without bonuses awarded to the highest contributors in teams. A purely team-based compensation scheme induces …
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The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
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