First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion, symbolic awards, and educational achievement depend on the rank of individuals in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever organizations use rank-order relative-performance evaluation, people receive feedback about...

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Volume:	65
Main Author:	Gill, David Kissova, Zdenka Lee, Jaesun Prowse, Victoria
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	CATONSVILLE INFORMS 01.02.2019 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
published in:	Management science Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 494 - 507
ORCID:	0000-0002-6055-3788
Data of publication:	20190200
ISSN:	0025-1909 1526-5501
EISSN:	1526-5501
Discipline:	Business
Subjects:	self-esteem fixed wage flat wage relative performance evaluation rank order feedback taste for rank real-effort experiment status seeking social esteem public feedback private feedback relative performance feedback dynamic effort provision Business & Economics Operations Research & Management Science Social Sciences Management Technology Science & Technology Ranking and selection (Statistics) Organizational structure Employee incentives Usage Employee performance Analysis United States self-esteem fixed wage flat wage COMPENSATION AWARDS INFORMATION relative performance evaluation rank order feedback taste for rank INCENTIVES real-effort experiment status seeking social esteem public feedback private feedback COMPETITION TOURNAMENTS WORK relative performance feedback AVERSION dynamic effort provision GENDER-DIFFERENCES FEEDBACK
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2019 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2019 Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS