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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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Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...
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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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Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
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mental health (well-being and burnout) based on four surveys of French small business owners. First, comparing our results … recovery experiences increases well-being and reduces burnout. Third, we show that the detachment component is not correlated … with well-being, and the mastery component is not correlated with burnout. Relaxation and control are most strongly …
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Hiring discrimination towards (former) burnout patients has been extensively documented in the literature. To tackle … of burnout that were mentioned earlier in the literature. We found candidates revealing a history of burnout elicit … pressure, the tested perceptions jointly explained over 90% of the effect of revealing burnout on the probability of being …
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The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for … persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. Moreover, we link … current risk of burnout judged fictitious job offers with experimentally manipulated characteristics in terms of their …
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Recent studies have explored hiring discrimination as an obstacle to former burnout patients. Many workers, however …, return to the same employer, where they face an even more severe aftermath of burnout syndrome: promotion discrimination. To … experiment with 406 genuine managers, testing the potential of the main burnout stigma theoretically described in the literature …
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We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and subsequent performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if...
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Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...
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