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Performance-Based Compensation and Firm Value – Experimental Evidence
Pfeiffer, Glenn - 2015
reasons as to why, we design an experiment that allows us to manipulate variables separately to examine the effect of adverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036841
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Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank
Manthei, Kathrin - 2018
experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915743
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Evidence on Incentive Effects of Subjective Performance Evaluations
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2011
The authors investigate the effect of managerial performance evaluation styles on employee work effort. Using panel data on 4,080 employees in a Swiss unit of an international company for the period 1999-2002, they test two hypotheses using paid and unpaid overtime work as effort indicators. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125219
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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm : Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment
Bellemare, Charles - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract … as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, workers began planting a terrain at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048817
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Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm : Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment
Bellemare, Charles - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract … as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, workers began planting a terrain at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052706
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Leniency bias in long-term workplace relationships
Tichem, Jan - 2013
This paper studies how firms can efficiently incentivize supervisors to truthfully report employee performance. To this end, I develop a dynamic principal-supervisor-agent model. The supervisor is either selfish or altruistic towards the agent, which is observable to the agent but not to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226565
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Hidden benefits of reward : a field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives
Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793159
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Strive to be first or avoid being last : an experiment on relative performance incentives
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2013
three mechanisms with the appropriate distribution of prizes. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment and … behavior in all mechanisms is consistent with basic directional and reinforcement learning. -- tournament ; reward ; punishment … ; promotion ; firing ; contract ; experiment ; learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743404
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Measuring ratchet effects within a firm : evidence from a field experiment varying contractual commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract … as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, workers began planting a terrain at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359307
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Measuring ratchet effects within a firm : evidence from a field experiment varying contractual commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract … as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, workers began planting a terrain at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384384