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this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
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this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …
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received the same performance - independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member's wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than … other team member's wage level. In contrast, workers whose wage was not cut but who witnessed their team member's pay being …
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tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers. …
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Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …
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. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …. In this paper we analyse the strategic interactions across subteams created by a two-level team structure, in order to … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …
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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …
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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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It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...
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importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the … intensity of team incentives and several survey measures of cooperation. Moreover, higher powered team incentives are associated …
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