Will more skills become a burden? The effect of positional ambiguity on player and team performance

Wang, Jiangang; Liu, Fanghong

doi:10.1007/s10479-022-04588-5

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“…In addition, the assignment with the small variance of their skills in the group brings about better performance than that with the great variance under much stronger effort complementarity, when the skills in both assignments have an identical mean, from Proposition 7. Noting that nonstar players' skills in the NBA depend on positions from Wang and Liu (2023), our result suggests that the team manager whose team comprises nonstar players in the NBA league, by the exchange of two positions between two players, assigns positions to them at which they are better than before the exchange and thus reduces the disparity among their skills. These results are applied to a team comprising star and nonstar players.…”

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“…Proposition 3 shows how to assign roles to group members in such a case if the group members' skills are constant regarding any role. Wang and Liu (2023) point out that recent players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the United States are taking different positions (roles) and the NBA is becoming a positionless league. Besides, they point out the importance of teamwork which is the strong effort complementarity in a team in the NBA.…”

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“…The team manager assigns positions at which they excel to nonstar players (to reduce the disparity of their skills) and assigns the remaining positions to star players who are all‐rounders. Wang and Liu (2023) suggest that the nonstar players should focus on their specific positions and the team manager should focus on the synergy between positions. Our results are not contradictory to their suggestions.…”

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“…They explain merit pay as pay based on "employee performance and capabilities (e.g., knowledge, skills, abilities, experiences)." It is close to our skill-based pay.24 However, that in professional baseball league depends on weak work interdependence Wang and Liu (2023). point out the importance of…”

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“…2424However, that in professional baseball league depends on weak work interdependence. Wang and Liu (2023) point out the importance of teamwork in basketball. From these previous studies, the effort complementarity in hockey and basketball teams is stronger than that in baseball teams.…”

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Effort complementarity and role assignments in group contests

Kobayashi

2024

Economics Manag Strategy

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This study characterizes role assignments in maximizing a group's winning probability under the influence of the complementarity of group members' efforts in a group contest, in contrast to prize and multiple resource allocations. We use a constant elasticity of substitution effort aggregator function to parameterize the complementarity. While the prize and resource allocation rules depend on the complementarity, the assignment rule does not when multiple roles are assignable to a single group member: All roles are assigned only to the most productive group member. However, when only a single role per group member is assignable, the assignment rule depends on the complementarity: Roles from greater to less importance are assigned to group members in descending order of their productivity under strong complementarity; only the most important role is assigned to the most productive group member and the others have no effect under weak complementarity.

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