In an environment where three-person groups develop a creative solution to an important problem, we examine whether the efficacy of either individual or group-based creativity-contingent incentives depends on whether they take the piece-rate or tournament form. We predict and find that group...

Using an experiment in which participants design rebus puzzles, we extend recent research on creativity-weighted productivity (i.e., quantity weighted by creativity ratings) by allowing participants to choose between a contract that rewards creativity-weighted productivity or one that rewards...

We examine how worker productivity differs when compensation is based on quantity, creativity, or the product of both measures. In an experiment in which participants design rebus puzzles, we find that combining quantity and creativity measures in a creativity-weighted pay scheme results in...

When setting budgets, managers may place constraints on how resources can be used in an effort to mitigate opportunistic behavior by subordinates. These restrictions can affect the ability of the subordinate to succeed in the budgeted task, but may also have an unintended spillover effect on the...