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Good internal communication increases productivity
Opitz, Isabel (contributor); Hinner, Michael B. (contributor) - 2003
Internal communication has become an important factor in today's business world. The increased use of electronic media … can, despite their obvious advantages, cause communication problems, i.e. information overload. By avoiding communication … problems, the productivity of a company can be increased. The relation between internal communication and productivity has been …
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Mediocrity and induced reciprocity
Montinari, Natalia; Nicolò, Antonio; Oexl, Regine - 2012
We report evidence from an experiment where a principal chooses an agent out of two to perform a task for a fixed compensation. The principal's payoff depends on the agent's ex-ante ability and on a non-contractible effort that the agent has to exert once employed. We find that a significant...
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The role of salience in performance schemes: Evidence from a field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281805
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The role of salience in performance schemes: Evidence from a field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282221
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Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence from H-1B Visa Denials
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Doran, Kirk; Marinoni, Astrid; … - 2022
We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find that employees who lost peers of the same ethnic...
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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace: Evidence from a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
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Team Diversity und Teamleistung im Kontext von geteilter sozialer Identität: Ein Erklärungsansatz über Kurvilinearitäten
Kirch, Johannes; Tomenendal, Matthias - 2015
Die Forschung zur Auswirkung von funktionaler Team Diversity auf Teamleistung hat bisher gemischte Ergebnisse gebracht. Im Kontext der sozialen Identität eines Teams werden im vorliegenden Beitrag zunächst Hypothesen über die Beziehungen zwischen funktionaler Vielfalt, Teamvertrauen,...
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Supplier's internal communication in change process to solution business: Challenges and tentative research agenda
Ryynänen, Harri; Pekkarinen, Olli; Salminen, Risto T. - In: jbm - Journal of Business Market Management 5 (2012) 3, pp. 154-172
This research examines supplier's internal communication when a company is changing to being a solution provider. The … focus lies on the internal communication challenges during the change. The qualitative case study comprises two cases of the … change process to solution business. The results indicate that there are eight main internal communication challenges when a …
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Power and the Privilege of Clarity: An Analysis of Bargaining Power and Information Transmission
de Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2011
We provide a game theoretic analysis of how power shapes the clarity of communication. We analyze information … by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325901
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Can more information facilitate communication?
Ishida, Junichiro; Shimizu, Takashi - 2012
In this paper we analyze a cheap talk model with a partially informed receiver. In clear contrast to the previous literature, we find that there is a case where the receiver's prior knowledge enhances the amount of information conveyed via cheap talk. The point of departure is our explicit focus...
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