Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

between team and individual behavior we employ the race game. This game has the advantage that the optimal strategy does … of the race game we find that the team advantage increases with the complexity of the game. The latter finding supports … and the size of synergies created by teams. -- Race game ; strategic sophistication ; team decision making …

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and … endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely …

-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our … workers regularly overstate their own contribution to the joint team output. Misreporting seems to spread distrust within the … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …

’ performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find that if team performance is determined by the best performer (the "best …-shot technology"), then both public and private feedback are better than no feedback unless the team is composed of all low performers …, in which case no feedback is best. If, on the other hand, team performance is determined by the worst performer (the …