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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation : An Experimental Study

Fehrler, Sebastian - 2012

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

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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams

Klor, Esteban F. - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In the context of sequential team production with positive externalities between agents, incentive...

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Workplace Democracy in the Lab

Mellizo, Philip - 2011

While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...

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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance : A Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2018

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'...

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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Brown, Sarah - 2014

We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...

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Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender : An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace

Bellemare, Charles - 2009

). These results are consistent with models of conformism and self-motivation …

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Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A …

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Exploitation Aversion : When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2013

rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …

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The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Measuring IQ

Borghans, Lex - 2013

intrinsic (questions that people like to work on) and extrinsic motivation (incentive payments) increase time investments and as …. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation turn out to be complements …

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