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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts

Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne - 2016

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts

Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459389

Managerial payoff and gift-exchange in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2019

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. Results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage-gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We control for differences in...

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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value

Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...

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Employee stock purchase plans : gift or incentive? ; evidence from a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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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 …

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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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Multi-rater performance evaluations and incentives

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2024

We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and running a laboratory experiment. The model predicts that multi-rater evaluations are more precise than single-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about...

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Multi-rater performance evaluations and incentives

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2024

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Multitasking and subjective performance evaluations : theory and evidence from a field experiment in a bank

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to … span of control is larger and incentives are distorted towards more profitable tasks. We then investigate a field …

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