The global competition and advancements in Information Technology have stimulated implementation of innovative HR practices, often termed as High Performance Work Practices (HPWP) to improve the performance of the employees. HPWP may be regarded as a combination of innovative HR practices which...

This paper suggests a potential rationale for the recent empirical finding that overconfident agents tend to self-select into more competitive environments (e.g. Dohmen and Falk, forthcoming). In particular, it shows that moderate overconfidence in a contest can improve the agent's performance...