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Team Governance:Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to theoutcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if theteam manager has some information about team members, interventions that the managerundertakes in order to assure...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet thelevel of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that thesedifferences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneouspreferences and preferences are...

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime:An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements onbusiness performance, we …

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Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory : Evidence from Managers

Huffman, David; Raymond, Collin; Shvets, Julia - 2023

studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each … performance; (ii) managers have overly-positive memories of past performance; (iii) the two phenomena are linked at an individual …

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Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay

Seki, Erika - 2013

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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Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace : Evidence from Personnel Data

Bandiera, Oriana - 2011

. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how … irrespective of the worker's ability, but when they are paid performance bonuses, they target their effort towards high ability … performance of connected workers, we find that favoring connected workers is detrimental for the firm's overall performance …

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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies : Evidence from the Political Arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Amodio, Francesco - 2019

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...

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Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments

Kölling, Arnd - 2019

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of owner-management in an establishment and the probabilities of having a works council or a collective...

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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Grund, Christian - 2019

Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance … appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual …. Employees working in establishments with a works council are more likely to face a formal performance appraisal procedure. Works …

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