Letting down the team?
Subtitle: evidence of social effects of team incentives
By: Philip Babcock ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16687; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16687.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  This paper investigates the effectiveness of incentivizing people in teams versus incentivizing them as individuals.  In a field experiment featuring exogenous team-formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions over time, we find that subjects are more apt to attempt an effort-intensive exercise task when they are on a team, even when the expected payout is lower.  The main results are driven by inactive types, who exert more effort in team settings and are more likely to accomplish the task, despite the lower expected pay-off.  We conclude that social effects in teams exist and can be decisive in motivating effort-intensive tasks"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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