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| Title: | | Treating equals unequally : incentives in teams, workers' motivation and production technology  |
| Authors: | | Goerg, Sebastian J. Kube, Sebastian Zultan, Ro'i |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Bonn econ discussion papers 2007,17 |
| Abstract: | | The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially increase productivity by facilitating coordination, and that the effect strongly interacts with the exact shape of the production function. Taken together, our data highlight the relevance of the production function for organization construction and suggest that equal treatment of equals is neither a necessary nor a sufficient prerequisite for eliciting high performance in teams. |
| Subjects: | | team incentives equity production function social preferences laboratory experiment discriminating mechanism mechanism design |
| JEL: | | C92 D23 D63 J31 J33 J41 M12 M52 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Bonn Econ Discussion Papers, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), Universität Bonn
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