...; Kari Joseph Olsen, Utah Valley University, Woodbury School of Business, Department of Accounting, Orem, UT, USA; Todd A. Thornock, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, College of Business, Department of Accounting, Lincoln, NE, USA. effort incentives counterproductive work behaviors effort quality...

...Yu Tian; Brad M. Tuttle; Yin Xu ABSTRACT In this study, we investigate the effects of faultline-induced conflict on individual effort and how incentives can be designed to overcome these negative effects. Faultlines are hypothetical dividing lines between group members based on various member...

...Alisa G. Brink; Frederick W. Rankin ABSTRACT: This study examines the effects of risk preference and loss aversion on individual responses to differently framed, yet economically equivalent, incentive contracts. We extend prior research by examining contracts with combinations of bonus, penalty...

...Anna M. Cianci; Steven E. Kaplan; Janet A. Samuels ABSTRACT: The current study experimentally examines effort expectations (i.e., planned hours) for a manager made by participants in the role of the manager or the manager's superior. The experiment also manipulates the type of incentive system...

... suggest that financial incentives and outcome feedback are both critical to performance improvement in relatively complex iterative tasks. When either incentives or feedback is absent, performance suffers. While prior research has found outcome feedback relatively ineffective at improving complex...