Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … laboratory experiment in which the choice of the job characteristics (i.e., the mission) is part of the compensation package that … preferred one. The principals take advantage of this intrinsic motivation by offering lower piece rates and by using the choice …

. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal … intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …

that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation. …

crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …

This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …

tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk …

the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …

Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … laboratory experiment in which the choice of the job characteristics (i.e., the mission) is part of the compensation package that … preferred one. The principals take advantage of this intrinsic motivation by offering lower piece rates and by using the choice …