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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884106

Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2018

We run two field experiments within a large retail chain showing that the effectiveness of performance pay crucially hinges on prior job experience. Introducing sales-based performance pay for district- and later for store-managers, we find negligible average treatment effects. Based on surveys...

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Job Design, Learning & Intrinsic Motivation

Gibbs, Michael - 2021

According to psychologists and neuroscientists, a key source of intrinsic motivation is learning. An economic model of … this is presented. Learning may make work less onerous, or the employee may value it in and of itself. Multitasking … generates learning: performing one task increases productivity on related tasks. Intrinsic motivation generates a new multitask …

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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...

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Bonus culture: Competitive pay, screening, and multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...

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Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective

Eskildsen, Jacob Kjær; Frederiksen, Anders; Løkke, … - 2018

We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the...

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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Sliwka, Dirk - 2004

We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...

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Optimal incentive contracts under inequity aversion

Englmaier, Florian; Wambach, Achim - 2005

We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that agents are inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. We find: First, inequity aversion alters the structure of optimal contracts. Second, there is a...

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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005

This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...

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