This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together … productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members … encourage cooperation may actually hurt morale, by convincing opportunistic team members to imitate and later take advantage of …

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance … under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students … to teams based on their measured cognitive abilities (Raven test). Each team performs a variety of tasks, often involving …

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …