We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers ́performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …

Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric … excluding one member from team communication hurts team cooperation: the communicating partners collude in profit allocation … communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that …