We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their … the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their … the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …

We conducted a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its … interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only when accompanied by … performance pay. Moreover, performance pay slightly reduces performance unless it is accompanied by motivational talk. These …

We manipulate workers’ perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their … the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …

perform better. By conducting a natural field experiment, we aim to test whether this policy actually has the predicted … right, while being paid the same wages as the first group. We find that performance is about 12% higher when employees self … performance decrease. An online follow-up survey reveals that the surprisingly high level of performance seems to be driven by …

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers … that workers performance is about 11% higher for the same total wage when their wage is increased in two steps as opposed …

We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative … performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus by outperforming three comparable stores … from the control group over the course of four weeks. Treatment stores received weekly feedback on relative performance …