
Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort: the impact of incentives on team performance
Propper, Carol; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie; Tominey, Emma; Ratto, Marisa; Burgess, Simon (2010), Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort: the impact of incentives on team performance, The Economic Journal, 120, 547, p. 968-989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02331.x
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2010Journal name
The Economic JournalVolume
120Number
547Publisher
Wiley
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968-989
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Propper, Carolvon Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie
Tominey, Emma
Ratto, Marisa
Burgess, Simon
Abstract (EN)
We use an experiment to study the impact of team-based incentives, exploiting rich data from personnel records and management information systems. Using a triple difference design, we show that the incentive scheme had an impact on team performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers also disproportionately reallocated efficient workers to the incentivised tasks. We show that this reallocation was the more important contributor to the overall outcome.Subjects / Keywords
Public Sector; Incentives; Performance; TeamsRelated items
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