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Person-Organization Fit and Incentives: A Causal Test

Andersson, Ola; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

We investigate the effects of organizational culture and personal value orientations on performance under individual and team contest incentives. We develop a model of regard for others and in-group favoritism predicting interaction effects between organizational culture and personal values in...

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When higher prizes lead to lower efforts—The impact of favoritism in tournaments

Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 188-191

We investigate the relationship between tournament prices and effort choices in the presence of favoritism. High tournament prizes can decrease agents’ effort supply when the choice of the winner is not perfectly objective but affected to some extent by personal preferences of an evaluator.

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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

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The problem of the principal-agent and promotion tournaments in religious organizations: choosing the next pope

Oliveira, Livio Luiz Soares de; Neto, Giácomo Balbinotto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper shows an application of Promotion Tournaments to religious organizations, which is appropriate, especially … suitability of the use Tournaments in religious organizations, regarding the optimal structure of contracts in order to select, as …, both with two clerics with homogeneous skills. Finally, we discuss the advantages and limitations of the Tournaments …

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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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The CEO Labour Market in China's Public Listed Companies

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Using panel data for all of China's public listed firms over the period 2001-2010 we examine how firms have recruited and rewarded their executives over a decade of huge growth and turbulence. CEO pay is sensitive to firm performance, although the elasticities are lower than for the United...

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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions: Theory and Field Evidence

Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for...

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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …

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Pay inequalities and managerial turnover

Kale, Jayant R.; Reis, Ebru; Venkateswaran, Anand - In: Journal of Empirical Finance 27 (2014) C, pp. 21-39

We study how pay inequalities affect (i) a firm's rate of voluntary non-CEO manager (VP) VP resignations, and (ii) the likelihood that an individual VP will voluntarily resign. We consider pay inequalities that a VP faces relative to (i) the CEO in her own firm, (ii) other VPs in the firm, and...

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The pros and cons of workplace tournaments

Sheremeta, Roman M. - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Tournaments are commonly used in the workplace to determine promotion, assign bonuses, and motivate personal … workplace tournaments have been identified in an explosion of theoretical, empirical, and experimental research over the past 30 … tournaments in the workplace. …

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