To address the empirical phenomenon that organizations often reward time on the job as an end in itself, we design an experiment in which participants solve anagram puzzles, manipulating whether a compensation pool generated from the output of paired workers is allocated based on the individual...

In an abstract, incentivized experiment patterned after the investigation and adjustment decisions that characterize auditing, we find that participants who adjust for information obtained from their willful investigation specify lower adjustments than participants who get the same information...