Firing threats : Incentive effects and impression management | Corgnet, Brice (19..-....)
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Firing threats : Incentive effects and impression management

in Games and Economic Behavior, 91

Corgnet, Brice (19..-....) ; Hernán-González, Roberto ; Rassenti, Stephen

Voir la revue «Games and Economic Behavior»

We study the effect of firing threats in a virtual workplace that reproduces features of existing organizations. We show that organizations in which bosses can fire up to one third of their workforce produce twice as much as organizations for which firing is not possible. Firing threats sharply decrease on-the-job leisure. Nevertheless, organizations endowed with firing threats underperformed those using individual incentives. In the presence of firing threats, employees engage in impression ... management activities to be seen as hard-working individuals in line with our model. Finally, production levels dropped substantially when the threat of being fired was removed, whereas on-the-job leisure surged.

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