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Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …
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Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3 (2011) 3, pp. 86-99
We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with … treatment were offered a congratulatory card honoring the best performance. The award was purely symbolic to ensure that any … behavioral effect is driven by non-material benefits. Our results show that the award increases performance by about 12 percent …
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And the winner is…? The motivating power of employee awards
Neckermann, Susanne; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 46 (2013) C, pp. 66-77
This paper reports the findings from a survey experiment conducted online at IBM to assess the impact of employee awards on behavior in the workplace. We document that the introduction of a hypothetical award has statistically significant effects on the stated willingness to contribute to a...
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Awards at work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Labour Economics 31 (2014) C, pp. 205-217
center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow us to estimate the impact of awards on performance. Winning an … award for voluntary work behaviors significantly increases subsequent core call center performance. The effect is short …
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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
interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071767
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Awards at work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
center of a Fortune 500 financial services provider allow us to estimate the impact of awards on performance. Winning an … award for voluntary work behaviors significantly increases subsequent core call center performance. The effect is short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957755
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Awards at work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010
us to estimate the causal impact on effort when receiving an award. The performance of winners proves to be significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596156
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Academics appreciate awards: a new aspect of incentives in research
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are typically of a vague nature. They derive their value, for instance, from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264544
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What is an award worth? : an econometric assessment of the impact of awards on employee performance
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
us to estimate the impact of receiving an award on effort. The performance of winners proves to be significantly higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273799
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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...
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