Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova‐Stenzel, Radosveta

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.02.004

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“…The incentives are required to provide additional income and a stimulus to increase productivity. Incentives are seen as an essential factor to stimulate worker performance [3]. Angelova, et al [3] compared two incentive schemes based on the relationship between incentive and performance.…”

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An Intelligent Incentive Model Based on Environmental Ergonomics for Food SMEs

Ushada

Putro

Khuriyati

2019

J. Eng. Technol. Sci.

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In this study, an intelligent incentive model based on environmental ergonomics in food small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was developed. Environmental ergonomics was defined as the impact of temperature and relative humidity within a certain range on a worker's heart rate during work. Optimum environmental ergonomics are highly required as a basic standard for food SMEs to provide fair incentives. Recommendable parameters from a genetic algorithm and fuzzy inference modeling were used to model customized incentives based on optimum heart rate, workplace temperature and relative humidity before and after working. The research hypothesis stated that industries should optimize their workload and workstation environment prior to customizing incentives. The research objectives were: 1) to recommend optimum environmental ergonomics parameters for customized incentives; 2) to determine the incentives at workstations of SMEs based on optimum environmental ergonomics parameters and fuzzy inference modeling. The optimum values for heart rate, workstation temperature and relative humidity used were based on recommendable values from the genetic algorithm. An inference model was developed to generate decisions whether a worker should receive an incentive based on a calculated index. The results indicated that 84.4% of workers should receive an incentive. The results of this research could be used to promote the concept of ergonomicsbased customized incentives.

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“…Incentives are seen as an essential factor to stimulate worker performance [3]. Angelova, et al [3] compared two incentive schemes based on the relationship between incentive and performance. Incentives have assisted industries in pursuing job rotation [1].…”

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An Intelligent Incentive Model Based on Environmental Ergonomics for Food SMEs

Ushada

Putro

Khuriyati

2019

J. Eng. Technol. Sci.

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Competition and fatigue

Angelova

Giebe

Ivanova‐Stenzel

2022

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Competition and Fatigue at Work

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We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over time if there is insufficient recovery. We model a sequence of work periods as tournaments that are linked through fatigue spillovers, inducing a non-time-separable decision problem. We also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods "before" and "after". Making recovery harder should, generally, reduce effort. This theoretical prediction is supported by the experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to fatigue, to strategic resting before and after. Our experimental results confirm the former, whereas we do not find sufficient evidence for the latter. Even in the presence of fatigue, total effort should positively respond to higher-powered incentives. This is not supported by our data.Removing fatigue, we find the expected increase in total effort. For work environments, this may imply that the link between monetary incentives and effort provision becomes weaker in the presence of fatigue or insufficient recovery between work periods.

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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?

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An Intelligent Incentive Model Based on Environmental Ergonomics for Food SMEs

An Intelligent Incentive Model Based on Environmental Ergonomics for Food SMEs

Competition and fatigue

Competition and Fatigue at Work

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