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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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Balancing performance measures when agents behave competitively in an environment with technological interdependencies
Sandner, Kai - 2008
This paper addresses the question, what metrics should be used for performance evaluation and in particular how they should be weighted and combined in the presence of technological interdependencies when the agents exhibit variedly strong developed rivalry. We find that the principal reacts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442171
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Misconduct and leader behaviour in contests : new evidence from European football
Kempa, Karol; Rusch, Hannes - 2016 - Version: 20 May 2016
referee and other misconducts, and between sanctioned behaviour of team captains and other players. Confirming the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500260
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Do managers with limited liability take more risky decisions? An information acquisition model
Malcomson, James M. - 2010
Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275809
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Do managers with limited liability take more risky decisions? : an information acquisition model
Malcomson, James M. - 2010
Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when … return. Further results on the form of contracts are also derived. -- managers ; risky decisions ; limited liability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937594
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Stock-based compensation plans and employee incentives
Zábojník, Ján - 2014
Standard principal-agent theory predicts that large firms should not use employee stock options and other stock-based compensation to provide incentives to non-executive employees. Yet, business practitioners appear to believe that stock-based compensation improves incentives, and mounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362951
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Learning, termination, and payout policy in dynamic incentive contracts
DeMarzo, Peter M.; Sannikov, Yuliy - 2016
We study a principal-agent setting in which both sides learn about future profitability from output, and the project can be abandoned/terminated if profitability is too low. With learning, shirking by the agent both reduces output and lowers the principal's estimate of future profitability. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864825
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Differences in social preferences : are they profitable for the firm?
Küpper, Hans-Ulrich; Sandner, Kai - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm's profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442170
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The value of leadership : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607636
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323166