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How Task Complexity Affects the Perception of Management Controls in Multi-Task Environments – an Experimental Analysis of the Effects on Effort Allocation
Bolduan, Felix; Schedlinsky, Ivo; Sommer, Friedrich; … - 2022
We investigate by means of an experiment how the perception of preventive management controls depends on task complexity and how both affect effort allocation in a multi-task environment. We predict and find that individuals perceive controls as more negative, i.e., annoying and obstructive, if...
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Managers’ Self-Serving Incentives : Information Avoidance in Performance Evaluation
Arshad, Farah - 2021
In many organizational contexts, managers might have self-serving incentives whereby giving high evaluations to employees comes at the expense of their own payoff. In this study, I examine the impact of managers’ self-serving incentives on the collection and use of information for the purpose...
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Eine oekonomische Analyse von Performance-Feedback - Theoretische Implikationen und experimentelle Evidenz
Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 21 (2007) 2, pp. 96-96
In vielen psychologischen Studien wurde gezeigt, dass Performance-Feedback als Motivator innerhalb einer Arbeitsbeziehung wirkt. In diesem Papier soll nun die Wirkung von Feedback mit Methoden der OEkonomie untersucht werden. Dazu wird der Einfluss von Feedback auf die Arbeitsanstrengung des...
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Biased supervision
Delfgaauw, Josse; Souverijn, Michiel - 2014
When verifiable performance measures are imperfect, organizations often resort to subjective performance pay. This may give supervisors the power to direct employees towards tasks that mainly benefit the supervisor rather than the organization. We cast a principal-supervisor-agent model in a...
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It's Not All Fun and Games : Feedback, Task Motivation, and Effort
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017
Performance feedback is a pervasive element of education, management, marketing, and the entire gaming industry. Prior research on feedback focuses on what information individuals receive, and how frequently. The gaming industry, though, is built upon the premise that how feedback is delivered...
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With or Without Siblings : Sorting into Competition in Experimental Chinese Labor Market
Yang, Fanzheng; Yu, Li - 2014
We examine whether Chinese only child and child with siblings, having similar ability as well as similar risk and social preferences, differ in their selection into a competitive environment. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a real task, first under a non-competitive piece rate and...
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Bonus versus penalty : how robust are the effects of contract framing?
De Quidt, Jonathan; Fallucchi, Francesco; Kölle, Felix; … - 2016
treatments subjects know at the time of effort provision whether they have achieved the bonus / avoided the penalty. In another … contract framing effect in either condition: effort provision is statistically indistinguishable under bonus and penalty …
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In Search of Informed Discretion : An Experimental Investigation of Fairness and Trust Reciprocity
Maas, Victor S. - 2011
. Specifically, we investigate the conditions under which managers tasked with allocating a discretionary bonus pool are willing to …. Using theory from behavioral economics that incorporates preferences for fairness into the manager's utility function, we …
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Shared Financial Interest, Fairness, and Honesty in Budget Reporting : Experimental Study in Indonesia
Rosdini, Dini - 2017
fairness of budget participation. Drawing on moral disengagement theory, it is said that the shared financial interest in slack … the fairness concern will affect the honesty of manager's budget reports in all condition as in first experiment. The … result of second experiment confirming that fairness concern effects the honesty of manager's budget reports when the …
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The Realism of Self-Interested Opportunism : An Experimental Investigation of Learning, Fairness, and Ethics
Schatzberg, Jeffrey W.; Stevens, Douglas E. - 2005
their budget but do not shirk more. Fairness concerns reduce both forms of opportunism but ethics concerns reduce shirking …
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