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Paying for what kind of performance? : performance pay and multitasking in mission-oriented jobs

Jones, Daniel B.; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions....

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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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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods

Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021

). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …

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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...

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Incentive Magnitude, Reference Point Shifting and Intrinsic Motivation : A Laboratory Experiment

Giusti, Giovanni - 2018

Despite the fact that much research has been devoted to understanding the effect of performance-contingent monetary incentives on individuals' effort provision, little attention has been dedicated toward understanding whether a sequence of changes in the amount of piece rate an individual...

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Organizational Control and Work Effort – Another Look at the Interplay of Rewards and Motivation

Kunz, Jennifer; Linder, Stefan - 2012

replace task-related (“intrinsic”) motivation by reward-induced external pressure (“extrinsic” motivation). Empirical findings … are mixed, partially given the different conceptualizations of intrinsic motivation. We shed more light on the impact of … interaction with different forms of intrinsic motivation. Our experimental results suggest that monetary and affiliative rewards …

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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers’ motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

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Job Scope and Motivation under Informal Incentives

Angelucci, Charles; Orzach, Roi - 2023

We model the relationship between the number of tasks assigned to an employee and a firm's ability to motivate effort through informal performance-based bonuses. We show that assigning multiple tasks gives the firm a greater range of performance levels that can be rewarded. The firm takes...

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Evaluating the quality of rewards systems

Petera, Petr - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 6 (2011) 3, pp. 66-91

. Finally, the impact of rewards on motivation and behavior is addressed and a framework for analyzing of incentives (variable …

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