From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency Free riding in team production arises because individual effort is not perfectly observable. It seems natural to suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks transparency about individual contributions despite negligible costs for providing such informati...

We study the role of information exchange, leadership, and coordination in team and partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes—a “team”—as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process. Once each team member decides on whether or not to share his private information truthfully, he chooses which ...

We study the impact of progress feedback in team-production contests, in which each team member is solely responsible for one part of the production task. Particularly, we employ a real-e¤ort laboratory experiment to examine how team members react to the feedback in team-based (best-ofthree) contests and whether it di¤ers from that of individual-based (best-ofthree) contests. Our data corrobora...

Recent work proposes that language production is organized to facilitate efficient communication by means of transmitting information at a constant rate. However, evidence has almost exclusively come from English. We present new results from Mandarin Chinese supporting the hypothesis that Constant Entropy Rate is observed cross-linguistically, and may be a universal property of the language pro...

ntroduction: electrocautery device is one of the most widely used electronic devices in operating rooms despite its advantages in operations, production risks such as the halo of smoke above the operating position. the smoke with hazardous substances,cause to transmitting hiv, hpv and hepatitis and complications such as respiratory distress, nausea and vomiting, eye irritation, headache, and so...

This paper presents a process model describing how a Kaizen team collectively creates innovation and improvement ideas for a production system and a protocol analysis approach based on the model. The process model captures the team-based creative problem solving practice as a process of updating a shared mental space comprising production system mental models (PSMMs) through exchanging utteranc...