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High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding Out of Non-Monetary Motives

Huffman, David - 2018

, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …

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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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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021

How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...

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Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises

Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2022

Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...

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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Dostie, Benoît - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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

Kajackaite, Agne - 2018

that choosing a manager who has a preference to spend resources for social causes can increase employee motivation. In turn …, ex-post losses in shareholder value may be offset by ex-ante gains in performance through higher employee motivation …

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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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Motivational Goal Bracketing : An Experiment

Koch, Alexander K. - 2017

We study in an online, real-effort experiment how the bracketing of non-binding goals affects performance in a work-leisure self-control problem. We externally induce the goal bracket – daily goals or a weekly goal – and within that bracket let subjects set goals for how much they want to...

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Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-Rational Goals

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2021

We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make...

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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

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