In many organizations, employees enjoy significant discretion regarding project selection. If projects differ in their informativeness about an employee’s quality, project choices will be distorted whenever career concerns are important. We analyze a model in which an organization can shape...

Workers in an important category of jobs select tasks autonomously. We study the tradeoff between monetary bonuses and non-monetary prizes as tools for guiding their choices. An optimal incentive scheme prioritizes workers for prizes in return for taking on underserved tasks, and this...