...Jeremy B. Lill; Michael J. Majerczyk; Ivo D. Tafkov ABSTRACT This study investigates, via an experiment, how the decentralization of a firm’s selection process affects the caliber of the chosen candidate in a team-based environment. We predict and find that, when decision makers have comprehensive...

... the relation between relative compensation and performance, and thereby provide insight into the relative importance of the selection, shirking, and reciprocity mechanisms. Studies find that as tasks become more complex, outcomes are more sensitive to ability and less sensitive to effort ( Bonner, Hastie...