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This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...
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Das IfM Bonn untersucht anhand einer repräsentativen Trendstudie für den Zeitraum 2007 bis 2017, wie KMU dem … demografischen Wandel begegnen. Demnach sind die KMU aktuell besser als 2007 über den demografischen Wandel informiert. Die Mehrheit … der KMU hat ihre Absatzstrategie an die bereits alternde Bevölkerung angepasst und mehr Maßnahmen zum Erhalt der …
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Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
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In jüngster Zeit wird in der Personalmanagementforschung vermehrt darauf hingewiesen, dass Forschungsfragen zum Themengebiet Performance Management in Bezug auf öffentliche und Nonprofit Organisationen bislang noch wenig erforscht sind (Brandl et al. 2006). In der Folge entwickelte sich ein...
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We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We … show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members … identifies that team governance is driven by the importance of tasks that cannot be monitored. The more important these tasks …
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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 … encourage cooperation may actually hurt morale, by convincing opportunistic team members to imitate and later take advantage of …
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shows that this overall decrease in efforts is almost entirely driven by the reaction of the ex-ante favorite team. …
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this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …
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demonstrate that the welfare of an overconfident agent in a team of one rational and one overconfident agent or a team of two … overconfident agents can be higher than that of the members of a team of two rational agents. This result holds irrespective of the …
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