...Vic Anand; Alan Webb; Chris Wong ABSTRACT Performance goals are used pervasively by organizations to motivate individual effort, and feedback about goal progress is often available on a highly frequent basis. While feedback can be beneficial, there is evidence that frequent unfavorable...

...H. Scott Asay; Jace B. Garrett; William B. Tayler ABSTRACT Prior research shows that managers use discretion to reduce the effect of “bad luck” on employees’ performance-based compensation, but not to reduce the effect of “good luck,” due to fairness concerns. In a setting without manager...

... governance nonprofit performance Early 2000 nonprofit sector accounting scandals (e.g., United Way of the National Capital Area and the Nature Conservancy) gave rise to concerns about accountability in the sector ( Grunewald 2008 ; Weidenbaum 2009 ; Dhanani and Connolly 2015 ). These concerns led...

..., I find that executive focus on support activities is associated with poorer firm performance and negative executive labor market consequences. These results are partially moderated by executive ability and background. Overall, the results suggest top executives perform best when focused solely...

...Ian Burt; Theresa Libby; Adam Presslee ABSTRACT Firms often evaluate subordinate performance relative to a difficult but attainable goal set at the beginning of the evaluation period. For many, a mechanism exists by which these goals may be adjusted downward at the end of the period to account...

...Marc Journeault ABSTRACT While a growing body of literature has examined and demonstrated the influence of eco-control on organizational performance, little is known about how this influence occurs within the organization. Building on a natural resource-based view, the aim of this study...

...Krishnamurthy Surysekar; Elizabeth H. Turner; Clark M. Wheatley ABSTRACT We address the impact of financial flexibility on organizational performance in a not-for-profit (NFP) setting. Specifically, we examine the link between donor-imposed financial inflexibility and subsequent donations. Donors...

... on performance, there is also evidence of dysfunctional intra-tournament behavior by top performers (complacency) and weak performers (giving up). However, few studies have examined behavior in organizational settings, not uncommon in practice, where tournaments are conducted on a repeated basis. We predict...

...Charles D. Bailey; Nicholas J. Fessler ABSTRACT This study examines the interactive effects of task complexity and attractiveness on the effectiveness of explicit monetary incentives in promoting task performance. We provide theory for and find an interaction such that monetary incentives are more...