Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
-pecuniary concerns such as status and self-image. Quasi-experimental panel data from the call center of a large international bank allow … us to estimate the causal impact on effort when receiving an award. The performance of winners proves to be significantly … higher than that of comparable nonrecipients after the award has been presented. This increase in work effort is sizeable and …