Performance Incentives and Organizational Behavior: Evidence from a Federal Bureaucracy
نویسنده
چکیده
This paper examines the effects of performance incentives in a federal job training program for the economically disadvantaged. A natural experiment that exogenously varies the incentives that government workers face allows me to identify incentive responses, which I find are consistent with a simple model of organizational behavior. Additionally, I show that the program’s incentive designers have difficulty identifying performance measures that are aligned with the program’s objectives. I discuss my results in the context of the greater incentive literature (especially the multi-tasking literature), as well as the literature on incentives in job training programs. (JEL J33, J24, D73, I38)
منابع مشابه
Reevaluation of problems and challenges in Iran University of Medical Sciences, the first step to an effective performance improvement
Background: In Iran, medical universities are responsible for providing medical education and health services as well as maintaining and improving population health through scientific and innovative methods. Identifying problems and challenges that hinder universities’ performance, and supporting them with innovative problem solving methods can help managers in achieving university goals. Rreco...
متن کاملBureaucracy and Organizational Performance: Causality Arguments about Public Schools
and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts. Abstract One key policy dispute in the school choice debate concerns whether the education bureaucracy is a cause or a consequence of poor performance. This dispute is striking because both sides accept the same neo-institutionalist organization theory. This paper uses a large panel of school districts to address the dispute. T...
متن کاملParticipative Decision Making and Employee Performance in the Hospitality Industry: A Study of Selected Hotels in Owerri Metropolis, Imo State
This study investigated the extent of the relationship between participative decision making and employee performance in selected hotels in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The specific objective determined the relationship between leader behavior and employee commitment. Descriptive survey and questionnaire was adopted as instrument for data collection. The total population of the study comprised o...
متن کاملKey drivers of innovative behavior in hotel industry: evidence from a developing country
The purpose of this paper is to determine the key drivers of innovative behavior of employees in hotel industry using evidence from a developing country. Measurement items were adapted from existing scales found in the organizational behavior literature. Academic colleagues reviewed the items for face validity and readability. The scales were evaluated for reliability, convergent validity, and ...
متن کامل1997 Governor's Award for Excellence in Pollution Prevention Recipients
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Crane's comprehensive pollution prevention program emphasizes planning, employee education, innovation and incentives. One of Crane's primary goals is to move the facility from a pollution control mindset to a pollution prevention ethic through its Corporate Environmental Policy Statement, environmental management system and educational tools ...
متن کامل