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The Peter Principle: An Experiment
Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promotedemployees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression tothe mean of the transitory component of ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939753
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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes:An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
juniors (under 30) and seniors (over 50) in both experiments conducted onsite with theemployees of two large firms and in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863328
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Employee types and endogenous organizational design
Cunyat, Antoni; Sloof, Randolph - 2008
and monitoring. This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to test whether organizations make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374422
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The interaction between explicit and relational incentives : an experiment
Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2009
We consider repeated trust game experiments to study the interplay between explicit and relational incentives. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378080
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Gift exchange in a multi-worker firm
Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2004
One of the main findings of a large body of gift exchange experiments is that in an incomplete contracts environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338000
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Performance measurement, expectancy and agency theory : an experimental study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006
for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343251
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The Choice of the Agenda in Labor Negotiations: Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations
Königstein, Manfred; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
an experiment in which the choice of the bargaining agenda is endogenous within a noncooperative game. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822647
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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255986
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Price-setting Power versus Private Information
Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
these predictions, private information appears to have no impact on the investment levels observed in the experiment. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255996
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Employee Types and Endogenous Organizational Design
Cunyat, Antoni; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
explicit contracts and monitoring. This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to test whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256879