. 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 …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking …

What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …

acquisition, explicit short-run incentives and career concern incentives on earnings progression. The model leads to predictions …

measures of motivation we find the returns to small firm investments in HRM are u-shaped. Small firms benefit from … are initially introduced, but can restore positive motivation when they invest intensively in HRM practices in a way that … employee motivation is modified somewhat by the recessionary transition, it remains rather robust and continues to have …

colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or … damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate …

Firms offer highly complex contracts to their employees. These contracts contain a mix of incentives, such as fixed … wages, bonus payments, promotion options, and layoff threats. In general, economists understand how incentives motivate … an optimal contract. In particular, we show that it can be optimal for firms to combine cost-efficient incentives such as …

performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, we find that treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to … the incentives, while the responsiveness of treatment stores close to winning a bonus increases in relative performance …

incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance – in particular when the incentive … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …

fixed number of points that help take the campaign further.We compare low and high levels of such incentives for direct … (where referred contacts refer others). We find that providing high level of incentives results in a statistically …

of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by … incentives and prizes. The conceptual factors highlighted by our analytical framework are then tested through a laboratory … experiment. The experimental exercise aims to analyze how prizes and incentives impact actual individuals' behavior differently …