Publication: Performance feedback and productivity: Evidence from a field experiment
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2023
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We theorize that employees use the performance feedback they receive to reassess their beliefs about the marginal benefit of their effort,which may lead them to increase or reduce their effort. To test our model,we conduct a field experiment at the distribution center of a Fortune 500 firm where employees receive individual performance pay,and we study two types of feedback,individual and relative. The results show that employees react to feedback content in a way that is consistent with the model: They increase their effort if the information provided implies that the marginal benefit of increasing effort is high and decrease it if they learn that it is low. Moreover,performance feedback has a greater impact on the lower quantiles of the distribution of productivity. © 2022 The Authors. Production and Operations Management published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Production and Operations Management Society.
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Awaysheh, A., Bonet, R., & Ortega, J. (2023). Performance feedback and productivity: Evidence from a field experiment. Production and operations management, 32(1), 98-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13827