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Ethnic diversity and team performance : a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

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Ethnic diversity and team performance : a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …

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The degradation of distorted performance measures

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...

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The effects of performance measurement and compensation on motivation

Herpen, Marco van; Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Cornelis - 2003

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between pay and performance. Economic and psychological theories predict that the design and implementation of a performance measurement and compensation system affect the motivation of employees. Our survey results demonstrate a positive...

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The effects of performance measurement and compensation on motivation - an empirical study

Herpen, Marco van; Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Cornelis - 2003

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The degradation of distorted performance measures : an application to residual income based measures like EVA

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008

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Testing for distortions in performance measures : an application to residual income based measures like economic value added

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical test developed by Courty and Marschke (2008) to detect whether the widely used class of Residual Income based...

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Wage structure and the incentive effects of promotions

Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 59 (2006) 3, pp. 441-459

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The effects of performance measurement and compensation on motivation: an empirical study

Herpen, Marco van; Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Cornelis - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 153 (2005) 3, pp. 303-329

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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions

Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002256818