expectancy theory; noisier performance measures do not lower work motivation. … than in the stable environment. This finding is in line with standard agency theory and contrasts a distinct element of …

-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical …

Recent advances in incentive theory stress the multi- dimensional nature of agent effort and specifically cases where …

, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …

incentives to suggest management implications directed to support motivation and performance of employees in public organizations …

We provide a new measure of work motivation and show that motivation shapes the effects of team incentives and … observation by peers on performance. In particular, we measure motivation to work hard as the deviation from the money …

the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …

rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …