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Motivation and incentives in an online labor market
Fest, Sebastian; Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; … - 2020
An increasing number of workers participate in online labor markets. In contrast to traditional employment relationships within firms, the interaction between online workers and their employers are short and impersonal, which makes motivating online workers more challenging. We present results...
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793159
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only when accompanied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342223
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Hidden Benefits of Reward : A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives
Kvaloy, Ola - 2013
interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075962
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Motivation and incentives in an online labor market
Fest, Sebastian; Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; … - 2019
In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977160
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597694
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team … identity does not improve performance. Social image motivates the top performers. Additional monetary incentives improve all …
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On the relevance and composition of gifts within the firm : evidence from field experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879373
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Do self-determined wages really improve employees performance? : evidence from a randomized field experiment : conference paper
Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014
Recent laboratory evidence suggests that employees who have the extraordinary right to self-determine their wages perform better. By conducting a natural field experiment, we aim to test whether this policy actually has the predicted positive effects in a real-labor market. Employees were hired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486690
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm : Evidence from Field Experiments
Shearer, Bruce - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157254