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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352243
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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
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Psychological Foundations of Incentives
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002
. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262734
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Legitimacy of control
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vadovic, Radovan - 2007
What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort requirement? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of control change when control is considered legitimate. We study a principal-agent model where control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268243
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Team governance: empowerment or hierarchical control
Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2007
We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268432
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …' philanthropic motivations and an experimental measure of their pro-social motivations. We find that both proxies predict health … professionals' decision to work in the non-profit sector. We also find that philanthropic health workers employed in the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269570
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The effects of a sick pay reform on absence and on health-related outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - 2009
absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … negative effects on health outcomes or perceived liquidity constraints. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269512
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Workplace democracy in the lab
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2011
While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285521
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Motivational goal bracketing
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271317
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Who benefits from benefits? Empirical research on tangible incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282164