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Our study analyzes the consequences of workers' participation in the wage setting process on effort exertion. The … is systematically varied among the workers. The experimental data reveals that workers' participation leads actually to a … decline in effort exertion which can be explained by negative reciprocity of the respective worker. These results put some …
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Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical dataon induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in acontrolled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory:effort and sabotage...
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curbs sabotage due to agreements on flat prize structures and increased output. -- Sabotage ; tournament ; reciprocity …
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Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be tempted to destroy the production of his competitors in order to improve the own relative position....
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We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. As one potential measure to encourage help, we augment relative rewards with team rewards...
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Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...
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We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team...
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reciprocity and inequality aversion reduce the attraction of performance related pay. Other-regarding preferences influence both …
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