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The effect of age diversity in groups on peer evaluations and individual performance

Görlitz, Katja; Sels, Tim - 2021

This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being … how age diverse groups affect individual performance in professional golf tournaments. The results show that peer and … superior evaluations as well as individual performance are lower in age diverse groups. Further evidence suggests that these …

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Dynamic incentive effects of team formation : experimental evidence

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2016

has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …

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The effect of announced downsizing on workplace performance : evidence from a retail Chain

Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Zubanov, Nick - 2016

We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 …

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Unethical behavior and group identity in contests

Bénistant, Julien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...

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On the effectiveness of elected male and female leaders and team coordination

Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...

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Teamwork, leadership and gender

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2018

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

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Team structure and the effectiveness of collective performance pay

Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma; Vergé, Thibaud - 2012

The adoption of performance related pay schemes has become increasingly popular in the public sector of several … countries. In the UK, the scheme designers favoured collective performance pay with the aim to foster cooperation across offices … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …

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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases … shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …

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Incentives and cooperation in firms : field evidence

Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

importance of individual, team, and company performance for compensation, we find a significant positive relation between the …

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Do social preferences increase productivity? : Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005

We provide a reason for the wider economics profession to take social preferences, a concern for the outcomes achieved by other reference agents, seriously. Although we show that student measures of social preference elicited in an experiment have little external validity when compared to...

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