Helping in Teams

Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring () and Bernd Irlenbusch ()
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Christine Harbring: RWTH Aachen University
Bernd Irlenbusch: University of Cologne

No 8707, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards increase. As one potential measure to encourage help, we augment relative rewards with team rewards determined by the output of the whole team. This theoretical benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen (1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage help.

Keywords: help; relative rewards; team incentives; corporate value statements; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 J33 J41 L23 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2014-12
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Published - revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.

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