Combining Egalitarian and Proportional Sharing Rules in Team Tournaments to Incentivize Energy-Efficient Behavior in a Principal-Agent Context

IF 4.2 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Organization & Environment Pub Date : 2020-08-06 DOI:10.1177/1086026620945343
Christin Hoffmann, K. Thommes
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Abstract

Triggering the energy-efficient behavior of agents in firms simultaneously decreases costs and mitigates CO2 emissions. If firms use team tournaments to increase energy-efficient behavior and thus employee performance, they may face unintended consequences, like a bifurcation effect: Individuals drop out if they believe that they cannot win the contest. By contrast, high-performing employees may overexert themselves. Additionally, some individuals might be tempted to free-ride. In a field experiment with truck drivers, we analyze whether proportional sharing of the bonus within teams based on individual effort instead of egalitarian sharing reduces both bifurcation and free-riding during team tournaments. Our results reveal that (1) the team contest improves performance; (2) this increase in performance is overall slightly stronger under the proportional than under the egalitarian sharing rule, using ceteris paribus comparisons; and (3) the performance increase is mainly driven by the team member performing worse.
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结合团队竞赛中的平均主义和比例分享规则激励委托代理环境下的节能行为
激发企业中代理人的节能行为可以同时降低成本和减少二氧化碳排放。如果公司利用团队比赛来提高节能行为,从而提高员工绩效,他们可能会面临意想不到的后果,比如分叉效应:如果个人认为自己无法赢得比赛,他们就会退出。相比之下,高绩效的员工可能会过度劳累。此外,一些人可能会想搭便车。在卡车司机的现场实验中,我们分析了基于个人努力而不是平等分享的团队内部奖金比例分享是否减少了团队比赛中的分岔和搭便车。我们的研究结果表明:(1)团队竞赛提高了绩效;(2)在采用其他条件比较的情况下,按比例分配规则下的绩效增长总体上略强于平等分享规则下的绩效增长;(3)绩效提升的主要驱动因素是团队成员绩效变差。
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期刊介绍: Organization & Environment encourages informed discussion about the social roots and consequences of environmental problems and stimulates deeper reflection on the meaning and significance of the natural world. By critically examining the impact of human production and consumption systems on the natural environment, Organization & Environment develops new perspectives on organizations that encourage environmentally sensitive reflection, inquiry, and practice.
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