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We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that …. This suggests that no general statements can be made concerning the propensity of groups to exhibit reciprocal or other …
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. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover … this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …
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We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare an exogenous and an endogenous decision mechanism to extend the temporary agent's group...
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worker productivity, what the team basis of the scheme implies, and the impact of the differential measurement precision. We …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality …
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worker productivity, what the team basis of the scheme implies, and the impact of the differential measurement precision. We …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality …
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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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examining the trade-off of acting based on in-group favouritism or a performance signal when decisions are made about whom to … choose as a team mate. The novel feature of your study is that the choice of a team mate is either benevolence or relevant to … (path of study) of the pool of possible team mates and received a signal giving weak information about their ability …
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Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely …
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We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced … by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). We find that populating such markets with teams of size two instead of … individuals significantly reduces the severity of mispricing. In particular we observe that under our teams treatment, deviations …
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We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that …. This suggests that no general statements can be made concerning the propensity of groups to exhibit reciprocal or other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822671