comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …

of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by … incentives and prizes. The conceptual factors highlighted by our analytical framework are then tested through a laboratory … experiment. The experimental exercise aims to analyze how prizes and incentives impact actual individuals' behavior differently …

crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …

In management, incentives are a reward to motivate people and create favorable conditions directed to achieve specific … incentives to suggest management implications directed to support motivation and performance of employees in public organizations …

performance evaluations over time provide effective incentives …

Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking … drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's self image, is thought to be the key to whether incentives work or not …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …

Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well … to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …

tournament contract incorporating both incentives at the top and at the bottom induces the highest effort, especially in larger …