- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 4
- Productivity in Con...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 26. Juli 2010
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2010-046
- Schlagwort(e)
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Economic Incentives
Organizational Culture
Personal Values
Teams
Tournaments
- Zusammenfsg.
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We study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal group design, we prime subjects to two alternative organizational cultures emphasizing either self-enhancement or self-trancendence. We find that effort is highest in self-trancendent teams and prosocially oriented subjects perform better than proself-oriented under that culture. In any other value-culture-mechanism constellation, performance is worse and/or prosocials and proselves do not differ in provided effort. These findings point out the importance of a "triple-fit" of preferences, organizational culture and incentive mechanism.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; J33 - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods ; M52 - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects