Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Treating Equals Unequally - Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
Author-Name: Sebastian Goerg
Author-Name: Sebastian Kube
Author-Name: Ro'i Zultan
Author-Email: sebastian.goerg@uni-bonn.de
Classification-JEL: C92, D23, D63, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52.
Keywords: team incentives, equity, production function, social preferences, laboratory experiment, discriminating mechanism, mechanism design.
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.
Note: 
Length: 29
Creation-Date: 2007-12
Revision-Date: 2008-01
File-URL: http://www.wiwi.uni-bonn.de/bgsepapers/bonedp/bgse17_2007.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse17_2007