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Treating Equals Unequally : Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015

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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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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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives

Dur, Robert - 2009

damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …

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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 …

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran - 2014

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams

Gill, David - 2015

of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team … inequity aversion over money net of effort costs as a special case. When identical teammates share team output equally, desert …

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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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A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market : The Role of Fairness Concerns

Fehr, Ernst - 2008

In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...

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Social Comparison and Performance : Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Gaechter, Simon - 2010

We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...

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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Gaechter, Simon - 2016

A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...

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