Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Positive and Negative Team Identity in a Promotion Game
Author-Name: Marion Eberlein
Author-Name: Gari Walkowitz
Author-Email: marion.eberlein@uni-bonn.de
Classification-JEL: M5, L2, C9
Keywords: Team identity, promotion, experiments
Abstract: Abstract: In this paper we experimentally investigate
	whether the so-called in-group/out-group bias leads to a
	favoring of own team members as candidates in promotion
	(by voting for them) relative to other teams and their
	members. In contrast to psychological approaches, mon-
	etary incentives for voting choices are implemented and
	objective performance criteria defined and thus the extent
	of the in-group/out-group bias is exactly measured. Our
	data show that face-to-face interaction with team members
	leads more subjects to favor own team-mates than in anonymous
	interaction. Moreover, not only the frequency but also the
	average extent of positive team identity is higher with
	face-to-face interaction according to objective performance
	measures. A further finding suggests that only anonymous
	team interaction often leads to substantial discrimination
	of own team members (i.e., negative team identity),
	which also is an interesting new finding and extends previous
	indings of psychologists on the in-group/out-group bias.
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Length: 31
Creation-Date: 2008-06
Revision-Date: 
File-URL: http://www.wiwi.uni-bonn.de/bgsepapers/bonedp/bgse13_2008.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse13_2008