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The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274018
through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703159
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 reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278589
In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity and efficiency have been seen as opposing aims in such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278697
In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with multiple employees. Traditionally, equity and efficiency have been seen as opposing aims in such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024592
. This is not caused by monetary incentives per se since under both wage schemes it is profit-maximizing for agents to exert …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269195
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 reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839289
simple rationale for team based incentives in many environments. Fourth, the Sufficient Statistics Result is violated … contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. We find: First, inequity aversion alters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267400
simple rationale for team based incentives in many environments. Fourth, the Sufficient Statistics Result is violated … contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. We find: First, inequity aversion alters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566722
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566518