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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 …
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Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703066
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861441
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The Firm as the Locus of Social Comparisons: Internal Labor Markets versus Up-or-Out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion …
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Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krüger, Miriam; … - 2015
performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits … out the bonus to all of its shops, and the performance of treatment and control shops converged after the roll-out. …
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The firm as the locus of social comparisons: Internal labor markets versus up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012
in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282601