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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control

Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting controlcan reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows thatintention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differin their propensity for reciprocity and preferences are private information. Not beingcontrolled might then be considered to be kind, because not everybody reciprocates notbeing controlled with high effort. This argument stands in contrast to existing theoreticalwisdom on motivational crowding-out that is primarily based on signaling models.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 11-115/1

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
Thema
extrinsic and intrinsic motivation
crowding-out
intention-based reciprocity
Leistungsmotivation
Leistungsbeurteilung
Austauschtheorie (Soziologie)
Verdrängungseffekt
Asymmetrische Information
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
von Siemens, Ferdinand
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2011

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • von Siemens, Ferdinand
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2011

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