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We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract-enforcement device for work teams. Our findings suggest that the use of such self-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the...
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incentives - "Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory …
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Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which requires reasonably accurate public information...
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This paper investigates the interaction of intrinsic and extrinsic incentives. We propose a simple principal …
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in case of low performance. -- Intrinsic Motivation ; Monetary Incentives ; Job Performance …
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We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and running a laboratory experiment. The model predicts that multi-rater evaluations are more precise than single-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about...
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We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and running a laboratory experiment. The model predicts that multi-rater evaluations are more precise than single-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about...
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Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … and non-monetary incentives imperfect. These findings have implications for the design of incentives in mission …
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What kind of incentives optimize a worker's motivation and perfor- mance, especially in remote work settings? We … individualistic (Solo) or one of two team incentives. Under our Cooperative team incentive, workers equally share the team's earnings … productivity. We find that workers under the Cooperative team incentives are most likely to participate on all three days, exhaust …
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In many workplaces co-workers have the best information about each other's effort. Managers may attempt to exploit this information through peer evaluation. I study peer evaluation in a pure moral hazard model of production by two limitedly liable agents. Agents receive a signal about their...
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