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The role of verifiability and privacy in the strategic provision of performance feedback: Theory and experimental evidence

Ertaç, Seda; Koçkesen, Levent; Özdemir, Duygu - 2015

We theoretically and experimentally analyze the role of verifiability and privacy in strategic performance feedback …-serving biases and engage in non-Bayesian social comparisons in their interpretation of performance feedback. …

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An empirical analysis of risk, incentives and the delegation of worker authority

Devaro, Jed; Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2011

We address four empirical questions in this paper. Is there empirical support for: 1) the risk-incentives tradeoff predicted by agency theory? 2) a positive relationship between authority and incentives? 3) a positive relationship between risk and authority? 4) the main testable implication of...

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Strategic feedback in teams: Theory and experimental evidence

Ertaç, Seda; Gümren, Mert; Koçkesen, Levent - 2017

different performance technologies. We consider a setting where the principal can provide truthful information on agents …' performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find that if team performance is determined by the best performer (the "best …, in which case no feedback is best. If, on the other hand, team performance is determined by the worst performer (the …

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Swedish evidence on the impact of cognitive and non-cognitive ability on earnings: An extended pre-market factor approach

Zetterberg, Johnny - 2005

This paper investigates the impact on earnings of non-cognitive ability, measured in terms of individuals’ 'self-esteem' on earnings. Starting with the pre-market factor approach suggested by Neal & Johnson (1996) a main finding is that measures of relative self-esteem along with cognitive...

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Gender differences in absence from work: Lessons from two world wars

Karlsson, Tobias - 2016

This paper traces the origins and early history of perceived gender differences in absenteeism in Great Britain and the USA. Among politicians and scholars, the problem was first articulated during World War I and reappeared as an issue of prime concern during World War II. The war efforts...

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Cheap search, picky workers? Evidence from a field experiment

Mayr, Harald - 2022

Search frictions impede the labor market. Despite this indisputable fact, it is a priori unclear how job search costs affect search duration and unemployment: lower search costs make it easier to find a job, reducing search duration and unemployment, but may also increase the reservation wage,...

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Pay Transparency under Subjective Performance Evaluation

Fahn, Matthias; Zanarone, Giorgio - 2021

"subjective performance evaluation"). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization …

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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies

Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023

worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a …

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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies

Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023

worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333783

Works councils in family businesses in Germany: Why are there so few?

Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; Kay, Rosemarie; Holz, Michael - 2014

independence) as well as to special characteristics of family businesses as a whole (i. e. performance and organizational changes). …

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