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Self-regulation through goal setting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2008
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …-regulation through goals only up to a certain point. For severely present-biased preferences, the required goal for self-regulation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268967
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Pro-social missions and worker motivation: An experimental study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012
mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282233
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Commitment to self-rewards
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
how a rational forward-looking individual may achieve commitment to self-rewards, by applying Köszegi and Rabin's (2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271233
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Commitment to Self-Rewards
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
how a rational forward-looking individual may achieve commitment to self-rewards, by applying Köszegi and Rabin's (2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999154
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Self-Regulation through Goal Setting
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these …-regulation through goals only up to a certain point. For severely present-biased preferences, the required goal for self-regulation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566581
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Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Clark, Damon; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Rush, Mark - 2016
causal effects of goal setting for college students. We report the results of two field experiments that involved almost four …: overconfidence and uncertainty about performance. Since task-based goal setting is low-cost, scaleable and logistically simple, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584598
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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? : The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories
Dickinson, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2004
motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261972
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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267545
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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269805
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Run for fun: Intrinsic motivation and physical performance
Filippin, Antonio; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
We use data from the 24-hours Belluno run which has the unique characteristic that participants are affiliated with teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also to study group dynamics in terms of accessions to and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282363