Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that recognition increases subsequent performance substant...

A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

We study a field experiment at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements. The company randomly assigned nineteen teams into treatment and control groups. Treatment team employees received rewards if their ideas were approved. Nothing changed for control team employees. Our main finding is that rewards substantially increased the qu...

Employee Turnover and Employee Performance: A Comparative Study among Nurses

An organization’s success depends mainly on employee retention, which will help the organizations reduce employee’s job turnover and increasing organizational effectiveness [1]. Employee turnover which has attracted major attention in this current century, to some extent, is fundamentally needed for growth of any organization. Advancement and changes taking place very rapidly in life styles, cu...

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherla...

The effects of goal difficulty on performance: a field experiment.