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Whom will you choose? - Collaborator Selection and Selector’s Self-Prediction
Eberlein, Marion; Przemeck, Judith - 2008
Our experiment investigates managers’ self-predictions of their subsequent performance and, based upon, their choice of … a collaborator. Our results show that managers’ self-predictions are not biased anymore after they are informed about … the performance of a reference group. In spite of this, most managers do not rationally choose a collaborator given their …
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Do women prefer a co-operative work environment?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011
paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
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Aging and attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: An artefactual field experiment in a Swiss bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...
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Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab
Cubel, Maria; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - 2014
While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. In this paper, we take advantage of a controlled laboratory set-up to test whether this relationship operates through productivity, and...
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Goal setting and worker motivation
Goerg, Sebastian J. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Employers want motivated and productive employees. Are there ways to increase employee motivation without relying solely on monetary incentives, such as pay-for-performance schemes? One tool that has shown promise in recent decades for improving worker performance is setting goals, whether they...
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Use and Abuse of Authority
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
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Peer effects of ambition
Albert, Philipp; Kübler, Dorothea; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana - 2019
Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...
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Measuring readiness for entrepreneurship: An information tool proposal
Coduras, Alicia; Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel; Ruiz, Jesús - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 1 (2016) 2, pp. 99-108
A profound review of the literature on entrepreneurship reveals that it does not exist a specific information tool to measure the individuals' readiness for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research has been building such kind of instrument to estimate the individuals' readiness for...
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Use and Abuse of Authority
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427645