Free Riding and Workplace Democracy – Heterogeneous Task Preferences and Sorting
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Free Riding and Workplace Democracy – Heterogeneous Task Preferences and Sorting. / Kamei, Kenju; Markussen, Thomas.
I: Management Science, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Free Riding and Workplace Democracy – Heterogeneous Task Preferences and Sorting
AU - Kamei, Kenju
AU - Markussen, Thomas
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - A novel laboratory experiment is used to show that mismatching between task preferences and task assignment undermines worker productivity and leads to free riding in teams. We elicit task preferences from all workers. Workers’ endogenous sorting into tasks significantly improves productivity under individual-based remuneration (performance pay). Under team-based remuneration (revenue sharing), free riding is significant, but almost exclusively among those working on undesired tasks. Task selection by majority voting in teams alleviates free riding, but only partly so, because some workers are still assigned to undesired tasks. Our findings have broad implications for research using real effort tasks.
AB - A novel laboratory experiment is used to show that mismatching between task preferences and task assignment undermines worker productivity and leads to free riding in teams. We elicit task preferences from all workers. Workers’ endogenous sorting into tasks significantly improves productivity under individual-based remuneration (performance pay). Under team-based remuneration (revenue sharing), free riding is significant, but almost exclusively among those working on undesired tasks. Task selection by majority voting in teams alleviates free riding, but only partly so, because some workers are still assigned to undesired tasks. Our findings have broad implications for research using real effort tasks.
KW - free riding
KW - team
KW - workplace democracy
KW - experiment
KW - real effort
KW - free riding
KW - team
KW - workplace democracy
KW - experiment
KW - real effort
KW - C92
KW - C91
KW - H41
KW - D82
KW - J01
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3516513
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3516513
M3 - Journal article
JO - Management Science
JF - Management Science
SN - 0025-1909
ER -
ID: 322121590