Opportunity Counts: Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives

By Brent Boning, Casey Ichniowski, Kathryn L. Shaw. Journal of Labor Economics, 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Theory and evidence in internal labor markets (2007, result): “This has been found in various studies including MacDuffie (1995), Ichniowski, Shaw, and Prennushi (1997), and Boning, Ichniowski, and Shaw (2007).”
Social Incentives in Organizations (2018, background): “Following on from this literature, several papers using more detailed data from individual firms uncovered a widespread use of collective/team incentives that cannot be rationalized without social incentives (Hansen, 1997; Gaynor et al., 2004; Griffith and Neely, 2009; Boning et al., 2007; Bartel et”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, result): “…increasing in the social skills of her fellow co-workers, and that teamwork increases productivity.33 This is consistent with findings that team production and group incentive pay structures boost productivity (Hamilton et al. 2003, Boning et al. 2007, Burgess et al. 2010, Bandiera et al. 2013).”
Teamworking and organizational performance: A review of survey-based research (2008, background): “Positive productivity effects were found in studies relating to the Australian economy (Glassop 2002), US steel mills (Boning et al. 2001) and the US apparel industry (Dunlop and Weil 1996).”
Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain (2015, unknown): “Our randomization across units of the same firm also takes care of another identification issue discussed by Prendergast (1999): across firms, technology and profitability are likely to differ, and these differences are relevant for the decision in favor of teamwork (cf. Boning et al., 2007).”
Human Resource Management and Productivity (2010, unknown): “Boning et al (2007) and Hamilton et al (2003) have the advantage that some of the unobservable shocks are controlled for by focusing on a narrower group of individuals (working in a single industry or a single firm).”
High-growth firms and productivity: evidence from the United Kingdom (2015, methodology): “Recent work has also used more reliable proxies to measure management practice in the area of human resource management (see, for example, Edward and Lazear 2000) and organisational strategies (Boning et al. 2007).”