Work Motivation and Teams
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Work Motivation and Teams. / Haeckl, Simone; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert.
2018.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Work Motivation and Teams
AU - Haeckl, Simone
AU - Sausgruber, Rupert
AU - Tyran, Jean-Robert
PY - 2018/9/14
Y1 - 2018/9/14
N2 - We provide a new measure of work motivation and show that motivation shapes the effects of team incentives and observation by peers on performance. In particular, we measure motivation to work hard as the deviation from the money-maximizing benchmark in a real-effort experiment. While we find that average output increases in response to team incentives and observation, we find that highly motivated workers do not respond. The reason is that highly motivated workers already work hard and increasing effort even further is very costly to them.
AB - We provide a new measure of work motivation and show that motivation shapes the effects of team incentives and observation by peers on performance. In particular, we measure motivation to work hard as the deviation from the money-maximizing benchmark in a real-effort experiment. While we find that average output increases in response to team incentives and observation, we find that highly motivated workers do not respond. The reason is that highly motivated workers already work hard and increasing effort even further is very costly to them.
KW - real-effort experiment
KW - cooperation
KW - team
KW - intrinsic motivation
KW - labors
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3239948
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3239948
M3 - Working paper
T3 - University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online)
BT - Work Motivation and Teams
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