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Team Incentives:Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-basedincentives remains scarce … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either throughrankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … to form teams with others of similarability instead of with their friends. Introducing rank incentives however reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486877
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Team Governance:Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to theoutcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if theteam manager has some information about team members, interventions that the managerundertakes in order to assure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861441
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Interactions Between Workers and the Technology ofProduction: Evidence from Professional Baseball
Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact witheach other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect theproductivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather thanrelying on behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861635
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Social Comparison in the Workplace : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Cohn, Alain - 2011
depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128831
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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Klor, Esteban F. - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production with positive externalities between agents, incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129921
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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans : Evidence from Korean Panel Data
Kato, Takao - 2010
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139059
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Teams Make You Smarter : Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
Maciejovsky, Boris - 2010
a market context. Teams of traders learn the task's solution faster than individuals and achieve this with weaker, less … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139333
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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
Winkler, Anne E. - 2012
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114375
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The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity : Evidence from a Field Experiment
de Grip, Andries - 2011
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on individual worker performance before and after training....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120011
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Lying and Team Incentives
Conrads, Julian - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...
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