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The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
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necessary nor a sufficient prerequisite for eliciting high performance in teams. -- Team incentives ; equity ; production …
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necessary nor a sufficient prerequisite for eliciting high performance in teams. -- team incentives ; equity ; production …
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The canonical principal-agent problem involves a risk-neutral principal who must use incentives to motivate a risk … is true, then the lessons to be learned from principal-agency theory are all the wrong ones. Concentrating on incentives …
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On-the-job leisure is a pervasive feature of the modern workplace. We studied its impact on work performance in a laboratory experiment by either allowing or restricting Internet access. We used a 2×2 experimental design in which subjects completing real-effort work tasks could earn cash...
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responsive to agents' performance. Agents' performance is higher in the presence of goal setting despite weaker incentives. We … incentives and wage-irrelevant goals can be optimal. The pervasive use of non-monetary incentives in the workplace may help … account for previous empirical findings suggesting that firms rely on unexpectedly weak monetary incentives. …
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the paper we experimentally test the main predictions of the model. We report evidence that both the alignment of …
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tournament. In this dynamic setting we test (i) whether giving continuous feedback (vs. final ex post feedback) on the opponent …
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