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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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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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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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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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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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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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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
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We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A … simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. As one potential measure to … encourage help, we augment relative rewards with team rewards determined by the output of the whole team. This theoretical …
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