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gains for the short side of the market. We also find that competition has a strong negative impact on social well-being, the …
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We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several … each manager tries to sway the employee's effort his way. While this may result in too much social exchange, the attention …
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altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees …
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This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members learn that lay-offs will occur at a fixed future date,...
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In many workplaces co-workers have the best information about each other's effort. Managers may attempt to exploit this information through peer evaluation. I study peer evaluation in a pure moral hazard model of production by two limitedly liable agents. Agents receive a signal about their...
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Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers … principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only engage in productive activities, but also in social interaction with their …
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When managers are sufficiently guided by social preferences, incentive provision through an organizational mode based … main finding is that they do not do so; although the importance of social preferences is recognized by those choosing the …
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. Hence, the social preferences composition of a team of workers has nuanced consequences on efforts. …
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inefficiencies, firms should keep the extent of hierarchy to a minimum, promote employees with the strongest sensitivity to social …
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: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts … that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take a public service job and, for a given job, make higher … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …
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