We investigate a potential selection benefit of stock-based compensation for rank-and-file employees, whose pay under this compensation form is insensitive to their individual efforts. Using a laboratory experiment, where we control for both the timing and expected magnitude of compensation, we...

Implicit employment contracts are a common way to motivate firm productivity but also require that employees trust management to be fair when allocating post-production firm resources between employees and owners. We use an experiment to study the problem of motivating firm productivity, which...

I use an experiment to examine whether expanding employee decision making - by either allowing employees to jointly determine firm activities with employers or assigning employees the sole authority to determine these activities - affects contributions to firm value. I investigate this issue in...

In an environment where employees have the freedom to direct some time away from their day-to-day, routine tasks to work on creative endeavors, we examine whether nonbinding targets for the amount of time to spend (input target) and/or the amount of output to produce (output target) on the...

This paper reports the results of multiple studies that together provide converging evidence in support of theory that gender stereotypes bias employee selection during group recruiting events. Specifically, we predict and find that female (male) job candidates who exhibit stereotypically male...

This paper reports the results of three studies that together provide converging evidence in support of theory that gender stereotypes bias employee selection during group recruiting events. Specifically, we find that female (male) job candidates who tend to exhibit stereotypically male...