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Meaning at work
Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Minni, Virginia; … - 2025
We evaluate a firm’s unusual, worker-centered, solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce the cost of effort rather than pushing them with performance rewards. We randomize the roll-out of the firm’s "Discover Your Purpose" intervention among 2,976 white-collar employees...
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Social Incentives in the Workplace
Bandiera, Oriana - 2011
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134643
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Team incentives: Evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282519
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083724
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422064
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Meaning at work
Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Zingales, Luigi; Minni, … - 2025
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015416681
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Social Incentives in the Workplace
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers’ behavioris affected by the … paidpiece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetaryterms and are such that — (i …%.The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm’saggregate performance is …
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Field Experiments with Firms
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
field experiments have provided new insights on shirking behavior, and the provision ofmonetary and non-monetary incentives …
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Gender Gaps across the Spectrum of Development: Local Talent and Firm Productivity
Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Minni, Virginia; … - 2024
We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development. Personnel records of over 100,000 individuals hired by a global firm that operates in 100 countries reveal that the performance of female employees is higher where women are...
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Social incentives in the workplace
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2009
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269336