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Failure in organisations is a very common phenomenon. Little is known about whether past failure affects workers … assign them to either receive or not receive information about the previous failure and measure their performance. We find …
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Failure in organisations is a very common phenomenon. Little is known about whether past failure affects workers … assign them to either receive or not receive information about the previous failure and measure their performance. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781260
of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as a year after the … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …
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of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as a year after the … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207974
government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected … individual performance feedback three times over one year resulted in a 25% increase in daily signups, compared to otherwise … information included in the treatments helpful and encouraging. However, performance feedback without benchmark information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470271
government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected … individual performance feedback three times over one year resulted in a 25% increase in daily signups, compared to otherwise … information included in the treatments helpful and encouraging. However, performance feedback without benchmark information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413486
Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women show differences in their willingness to speak in public....
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We conduct a field experiment with remote workers to assess potential adverse effects of monitoring. We find that monitoring reduces the average performance of workers, in particular among the intrinsically motivated workforce. Moreover, monitoring cultivates the average worker: There are fewer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433003
Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women show differences in their willingness to speak in public....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180152
This paper constitutes the first economic investigation into the potential detrimental role of smartphones in the workplace based on a field experiment. We exploit the conduct of a nationwide telephone survey, for which interviewers were recruited to work individually and in single offices for...
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