This study investigates whether the effect of managerial discretion over team members' compensation on team performance depends on task interdependence. Task interdependence reflects the degree to which the increase in team performance resulting from a team member's effort depends on the efforts...

Prior research suggests that team member communication based on mutual monitoring can improve team performance by enabling the manager to more closely relate individual team members' contributions to their rewards. Given that diverse work settings affect the ability of team members to observe...

This study investigates via an experiment the effects of target transparency on managers' target setting decisions. Specifically, we investigate whether target transparency, which reflects employees' knowledge about each other's targets, affects managers' target setting decisions and whether...

This study investigates how performance-to-target (exceeding vs. missing prior target) and task type (ability-driven vs. effort-driven) affect manager's target setting decisions in a setting in which a manager sets targets for multiple employees. We predict that target adjustments are greater...

Employees’ skill development is key to organizations’ competitiveness in a global, knowledge-based economy. Prior research in accounting, however, has mainly focused on the effects of management control instruments on the provision of transitory effort, thereby treating employee ability as...

Prior research suggests that providing managers with discretion over team bonus allocation can improve team performance because it enhances the relation between team members’ contributions to team output and their rewards. This study investigates whether task interdependence influences...