Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 78 (2011) 1, pp. 1-13
We investigate the costs and benefits of managerial interventions with a team in which workers care to different … degrees about output. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information … about team members, interventions by the manager may have destructive effects: they can distort how workers perceive their …