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plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study …The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …
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plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study …The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …
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use professional sports data from the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga, the major handball league in Germany. Using either … shows that this overall decrease in efforts is almost entirely driven by the reaction of the ex-ante favorite team. …
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We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …
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This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue … that a team’s performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue … Deutsche Bundesliga’) between the playing seasons 1986-87 and 2006-07. We find that distance increases a guest team …
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this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
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their contribution to team production. The players in the data sample differ regarding their outside options. Different … career opportunities of players may have two effects when their current team struggles against relegation. First, players … jeweiligen Team zurückgelegten Laufdistanz für Fußballer niedriger ist, die ihre Vereine nach einem Ligaabstieg verlassen. Die …
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We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630660