Role selection and team performance

Arbeitspapier

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very demanding for buyers and trivial for sellers. Teams perform better when roles are assigned endogenously or teammates are allowed to chat about their decisions, but the interaction effect between endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely explanation for this surprising result.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2011-14

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
• Subject: Role selection in teams ; team performance ; takeover game ; winner s curse ; communication ; experiment ; Arbeitsgruppe ; Soziale Rolle ; Anforderungsprofil ; Arbeitsleistung ; Spieltheorie ; Test

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cooper, David J. ; Sutter, Matthias
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
• (where): Innsbruck
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73482
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET