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the students' performance under different incentive strategies. The results showed that there were significant mean … differences on the students' performance among the three treatment groups in the study, with the mix incentives having the highest …'s performance. Results of the estimation reveal that the mix incentive strategy has a significant effect on the performance and were …
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We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect on effort, help and sabotage. Quite intuitively the theoretical analysis suggests that team...
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performance and the willingness to work in teams. In three different team environments, we find that such policies in form of … gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation within teams, and do not weaken people's willingness to work in teams …
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In corporate practice, incentive schemes are often complicated even for simple tasks. Hence, the way they are communicated might matter. In a controlled field experiment, we study a minimally invasive change in the communication of a well-established incentive scheme - a reminder regarding the...
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incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a series of field experiments involving more than 5,000 participants, we … performance, even among teams with strong intrinsic motivation. Bonuses also transform team organization by enhancing the demand … for leadership. Exogenously increasing teams' demand for leadership results in performance improvements comparable to …
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We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines “real” efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that it allows researchers to manipulate the cost of effort function as well as the production...
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We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines "real" efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that it allows researchers to manipulate the cost of effort function as well as the production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530634
We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines "real" efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that it allows researchers to manipulate the cost of effort function as well as the production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518803
has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellectual tasks. We report that in a company takeover experiment, groups placed better bids than individuals and substantially reduced the winner's curse. This improvement was mostly due to peer pressure over the...
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