Gill, David
[VerfasserIn]
;
Prowse, Victoria L.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Vlassopoulos, Michael
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Cheating in the Workplace
: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Anmerkungen:
In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 28, 2012 erstellt
Beschreibung:
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that induce considerable uncertainty in how much workers are paid. Exposing workers to a compensation scheme based on random bonuses makes them cheat more but has no effect on their productivity. We also find that more productive workers behave more dishonestly. We explain how these results suggest that workers' cheating behavior responds to the perceived fairness of their employer's compensation scheme