Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177032 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11228
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team incentives have the potential to curtail the role of these factors in favor of performance – in particular when the incentive plan includes both the leader and the team members. This paper presents the results of a field experiment designed to study the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets of 108 stores of a Dutch retail chain. We find no effect of the incentive, neither on task assignment nor on performance.
Subjects: 
team incentives
task assignment
field experiment
JEL: 
C93
M12
M52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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