 Ego-relevance in team productionCésar Mantilla and Zahra Murad No 2022-01, Working Papers in Economics & Finance from University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group Abstract: We study how individuals’ contribution to a team production task varies depending on whether the task is ego relevant or not. We design and conduct an experiment to test the effect of ego-relevance when the team output depends on the top- and the bottom-performer of the group. Ego-relevance is manipulated by calling the Raven IQ Test an “IQ Task” or a “Pattern Task”. We find that the contribution, which corresponds to an allocation of intended effort in the task, is affected by ego-relevance and the nature of the team production. However, both effects are mediated by the expected teammate’s contribution. Ego-relevance increases the responsiveness to the expected teammate’s behavior, a behavior that is also more noticeable when the team output depends on the bottom-performer. Nevertheless, we do not observe crossed-effects between ego-relevance and the nature of team production. Keywords: ego-relevance; experiment; team contribution; team production (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pbs:ecofin:2022-01 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers in Economics & Finance from University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group Portsmouth Business School Richmond Building Portland Street Portsmouth PO1 3DE United Kingdom. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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