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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - 2015
. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by … productivity, but only according to their risk attitudes and self-assessments. The reason for the absence of a selection of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500559
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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by … productivity, but only according to their risk attitudes and self-assessments. The reason for the absence of a selection of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213916
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Awards at work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2012
Social incentives like employee awards are widespread in the corporate sector and may be important instruments for solving agency problems. To date, we have little understanding of their effect on behavior. Unique panel data from the call center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308260
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Knowing that you matter, matters! The interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427004
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Incentivizing creativity: A large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011461715
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Awards at work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Social incentives like employee awards are widespread in the corporate sector and may be important instruments for solving agency problems. To date, we have little understanding of their effect on behavior. Unique panel data from the call center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957755
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Knowing that you matter, matters! The interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071767
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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants
Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - 2012
This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308278
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Employee recognition and performance: A field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2013
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311886
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Sectoral Differences in Wage Freezes and Wage Cuts: Evidence from a new Firm Survey
Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - 2008
The paper provides evidence concerning incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services and manufacturing, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more frequent in services than in manufacturing, whereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298678