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Individual and Job-Based Determinants ofPerformance Appraisal: Evidence from Germany

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the use of performance appraisal (PA) in German Firms. First, we derivehypotheses on individual and job … and alsoexplore the impact of PA on performance pay and further career prospects... …

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Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Butschek, Sebastian - 2019

We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT … formal model on labor supply and performance for individuals with different degrees of risk aversion and intrinsic motivation … performance for less intrinsically motivated workers. For more intrinsically motivated workers, however, we observe the opposite …

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Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Kajackaite, Agne - 2018

, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation …

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Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank

Manthei, Kathrin - 2018

We study the incentive effects of grating supervisors access to objective performance information when agents work on … objective measures but assess performance subjectively by gathering information. This incentive loss is more pronounced when the … experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …

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Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives

Danilov, Anasatsia - 2019

We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team...

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Helping in Teams

Danilov, Anasatsia - 2014

We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. As one potential measure to encourage help, we augment relative rewards with team rewards...

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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Sliwka, Dirk - 2007

An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These quot;conformistsquot; have social preferences if they believe that sufficiently many of the others do too....

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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2006

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...

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Performance Pay and Risk Aversion

Sliwka, Dirk - 2006

substantial negative impact on the probability that an employee's pay is performance contingent …

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Social Preferences and Rating Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluations

Kusterer, David; Sliwka, Dirk - 2022

We study the determinants of biases in subjective performance evaluations in an MTurk experiment to test the … performance. We conduct 6 experimental treatments varying (i) whether workers' pay depends on the performance evaluation, (ii … detailed performance information their ratings vary to a stronger extent with observed performance. In contrast to the model …

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