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Helping in teams
Danilov, Anastasia; Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2014
We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A … simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. As one potential measure to … encourage help, we augment relative rewards with team rewards determined by the output of the whole team. This theoretical …
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Helping under a combination of team and tournament incentives
Danilov, Anastasia; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Harbring, Christine - 2019
We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model … we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite … intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated …
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Variable payment schemes and productivity : do individual-based schemes really have a stronger influence than collective ones?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2023
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310847
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Variable payment schemes and productivity : do individual-based schemes really have a stronger influence than collective ones?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2023
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306872
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Working from home and performance pay : individual or collective payment schemes?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2024
Working from home reduces real-time visibility of employees within the physical space of the workplace. This makes it difficult to monitor employees' work behavior. Employers may instead monitor employees' outputs and provide incentives through performance pay. The crucial question is what type...
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The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives : Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems
Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2021
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives
Danilov, Anasatsia - 2019
We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model … we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite … intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. This problem is mitigated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870216
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
We conduct 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 if it is accompanied by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay...
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342223
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Does group-based incentive pay lead to higher productivity? : evidence from a complex and interdependent industrial production process
Frederiksen, Anders; Hansen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt; … - 2022
Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using difference-in-difference estimation. Performance...
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