Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Webb, Alan"
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Improving Perceptions of Fairness and Performance through Explanation and Perspective Taking
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-02)Employee performance can be negatively impacted due to the occurrence of unforeseen negative events. To filter out the influence of these negative exogenous shocks on employee compensation, management can commit ex-ante ... -
Incomplete Incentives, Task Temporality, and Effort Spillover in a Multitask Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-07)Incomplete incentive contracts in multitask environments present a significant control challenge of ensuring that employees expend sufficient effort towards all assigned tasks, particularly those that are not directly ... -
Working Smarter and Working Harder: Combining Learning and Performance Goals to Improve Performance in a High-Complexity Task Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)In a high-complexity task environment individual productivity can be improved through exerting more effort (i.e., working harder) as well as by learning improved task strategies. I examine the productivity effects of both ...