What Is an Award Worth? An Econometric Assessment of the Impact of Awards on Employee Performance

Susanne Neckermann, Reto Cueni and Bruno S. Frey ()

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Abstract: Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards|widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere are motivators that derive their value from such social concerns. Panel data from the call center of a large international bank allow us to estimate the impact of receiving an award on e ort. The performance of winners proves to be signi cantly higher than that of comparable nonrecipients after the award has been presented. This increase in work e ort is sizeable, robust, and not driven by reverse causation.

Keywords: Awards; Motivation; Non-monetary Compensation; Event-Study; Incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J33 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-05

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