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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced …, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257323
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …
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We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their …
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This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of …
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We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …
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We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize …
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We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257305
In many organizations, reward decisions depend on subjective performance evaluations. However, evaluating an employee's performance is often difficult. In this paper, we develop a model in which the employee is uncertain about his own performance and about the manager's ability to assess him....
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paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their … manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that … teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We explore various …
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