Peer Evaluation: Incentives and Co-Worker Relations

Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only engage in productive activities, but also in social interaction with their colleagues, which in turn cre...

Sensemaking and Relational Consequences of Peer Co-worker Deception

Asymmetric Incentives in Peer-to-Peer Systems

In most application scenarios for Peer-to-Peer systems, in order to achieve an overall acceptable system performance an incentive scheme is required that motivates users to share as much as possible of their free resources Today most peers use connections of asymmetric links, such as A-DSL or cable modems. Therefore, users have significantly more download bandwidth than their available upload b...

Adding Incentives to Peer-to-Peer Systems

Modern peer-to-peer systems rely heavily on the willingness of users to distribute files to their peers. A selfish user can choose to download a file and consume resources without uploading in return. This form of free-riding plagues all currently deployed systems. We present a protocol for a BitTorrent-like system (i.e., in which only one file is being shared) that strongly discourages peers f...

Co-location and Incentives *

The paper studies the effect of the information agents have about their peers' effort on the principal's cost of providing incentives. We use the analysis to address the issue of collocation in organizations, i.e., moving workers from private offices to open spaces or " war rooms " .Using directed graphs to represent peer information we show how the pricipal can gain from more transparancy amon...