, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity … by approximately 7%, while leaving team leaders' productivity unchanged, and was profitable for the firm. During the …

incentives; ¦S Plans of assigning wages out of productivity; ¦S Plans of distribution of profits and respectively ¦S Plans of … economic development associated to the West European states. It proposes the division of flexibility in three components …, namely: internal flexibility, external flexibility and wage flexibility. The analysis performed within the present study will …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …

consistently that the introduction of a PSP or a TIP will lead to a significant increase in productivity (about 10 percent) whereas … no such evidence found for ESOPs or SOPs. We also find that the productivity payoff appears to be more long-lasting for … complements in their productivity effects …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …

gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But ESPPs diverge from standard gift exchange or efficiency wage models …

comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … monetary incentives improve all teams’ outcomes without crowding out teams’ willingness to explore or perform similar tasks …