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ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of …
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is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members …
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top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region …A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this … relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little …
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In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …
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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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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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We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
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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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In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
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We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model … we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite … intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated …
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