Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations with and without bonuses awarded to the highest contributors in teams. A purely team-based compensation scheme induces agents to voluntarily cooperate while introducing an additional relative reward increases effort and efficiency only when the bonus is substantial. In this case, however, the data suggests that tournament competition crowds out voluntary cooperation within a team

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Year of publication:	[2006]
Authors:	Irlenbusch, Bernd
Other Persons:	Lünser, Gabriele K. (contributor)
Publisher:	[2006]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Arbeitsgruppe \| Team \| Leistungsentgelt \| Performance pay \| Theorie \| Theory \| Experiment \| Kooperation \| Cooperation

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