that over time, either firms learn about worker productivity but productivity remains fixed or workers' productivities … importance. We derive a dynamic model of learning and productivity that nests both models and allows them to coexist. We estimate … correlates of productivity, as opposed to the empirical evidence on employer learning which uses one fixed measure. Second, we …

(SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we assemble important new panel data by merging data from a survey of … consistently that the introduction of a PSP or a TIP will lead to a significant increase in productivity (about 10 percent) whereas … no such evidence found for ESOPs or SOPs. We also find that the productivity payoff appears to be more long-lasting for …

The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel … productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and whether this relationship is affected by various contextual factors … adoption of a profit sharing program and subsequent productivity growth in both panels, but only among establishments that …

. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … precise when the provision of team-based incentives crowds out the productivity enhancing effect of social connections under …Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce …

mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter …

this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production …

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …