Ego-relevance in team production

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General

Serie

• Working Papers in Economics & Finance

Resumen

• We study how individuals’ contribution to a team production task varies depending on whether the task is ego relevant or not. We design and conduct an experiment to test the effect of ego-relevance when the team output depends on the top- and the bottom-performer of the group. Ego-relevance is manipulated by calling the Raven IQ Test an “IQ Task” or a “Pattern Task”. We find that the contribution, which corresponds to an allocation of intended effort in the task, is affected by ego-relevance and the nature of the team production. However, both effects are mediated by the expected teammate’s contribution. Ego-relevance increases the responsiveness to the expected teammate’s behavior, a behavior that is also more noticeable when the team output depends on the bottom-performer. Nevertheless, we do not observe crossed-effects between ego-relevance and the nature of team production.

autores

• Mantilla, César
• Murad, Zahra

fecha de publicación

• 2022

Área temática

• C90 - Diseño de experimentos: Generalidades
• D91 - Elección intemporal del consumidor; Modelos del ciclo de vida y ahorro

Investigaciones

Líneas de investigación

• ego-relevance
• experiment
• team contribution
• team production

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Issue

• enero 2022