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An examination of how the effort-inducing property of incentive compensation influences performance in multidimensional tasks

Harris, Ling; Majerczyk, Michael; Newman, Andrew H. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 149 (2018), pp. 185-196

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Goal setting and worker motivation : individual work goals can increase a worker's performance, but they need to be chosen wisley

Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015

solely on monetary incentives, such as pay-for-performance schemes? One tool that has shown promise in recent decades for … improving worker performance is setting goals, whether they are assigned by management or self-chosen. Goals are powerful …

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Performative Mechanisms

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2015

Performativity is grounded in a particular kind of social mechanisms that involve semiotic causation. I combine three different literatures, on performativity, on constitutive explanations in the social sciences, and on Peircian semiotics into a conceptual and methodological framework that can...

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Decision-Making Strategies and Performance Among Seniors

Besedeš, Tibor - 2012

Using paper and pencil experiments administered in senior centers, we examine decision-making performance in multi …-attribute decision problems. We differentiate the effects of declining cognitive performance and changing cognitive process on decision …-making performance of seniors as they age. We find a significant decline in performance with age due to reduced reliance on common …

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Same Process, Different Outcomes : Group Performance in an Acquiring a Company Experiment

Casari, Marco - 2016

It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...

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The effect of tournament horizon, faultline and group performance relationships under decentralized system

Rohma, Frida Fanani; Shofiyah, Indah; Junaedi, Abdus Salam - In: Journal of Indonesian economy & business 38 (2023) 1, pp. 62-80

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CEOs' monetary incentives and performance of Mexican firms

Fassler, Karen Watkins - In: Corporate board : role, duties & composition; … 13 (2017) 1, pp. 36-46

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Charity, Incentives, and Performance

Dijk, Oege - 2013

firms do this is to create a warm glow about the firm and thereby affect employee behavior and improve performance. This … corporate donations to charity may affect the employee's incentives and lead to improved performance. We conclude that there is …

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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - In: Economics letters 166 (2018), pp. 31-34

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COMPARING THE PERFORMANCE EFFECT OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR A SIMPLE, RECURRENT TASK

Thomas, Stuart B. - In: Advances in management accounting : Vol. 13, (pp. 59-75). 2004

The current study examines the performance effects of financial incentives for a simple, recurrent task designed to … simulate an assembly-line setting. The study looks at early performance, improvement and overall performance. For a new task …, performance-based incentives appear to improve the initial performance of the task but not subsequent improvement rate (Bailey et …

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