company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control groups. Employees in treatment teams received rewards if their … ideas were approved. Nothing changed for employees in control teams. Our main finding is that rewards substantially … increased the quality of ideas submitted. Further, rewards increased participation in the suggestion system, but decreased the …

. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their environment a tool to demonstrate their value and achieve their goals …

company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control groups. Employees in treatment teams received rewards if their … ideas were approved. Nothing changed for employees in control teams. Our main finding is that rewards substantially … increased the quality of ideas submitted. Further, rewards increased participation in the suggestion system, but decreased the …

. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their environment a tool to demonstrate their value and achieve their goals …

) incentives could backfire because extrinsic motivation might crowd out intrinsic motivation. Moreover, national differences in … subjects, which served as an intrinsic motivation. The results indicate that with respect to activities with a prosocial … this project, we ran a real effort experiment in Germany and in China. In addition to an extrinsic monetary incentive …