So I was quoted in Human Resource Executive Online:
Jodi Beggs, a researcher in the field of behavioral economics and incentives who focuses specifically on when, if and how incentive schemes work, says the jury is still out on whether pay-for-performance compensation plans will someday be the norm.
“The high-level summary of academic findings is that pay-for-performance [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Incentives'
On The Popularity Of Pay-For-Performance And The Illusion Of Control…
August 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Incentives · Press · The Simpsons
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Want To Watch Econgirl Talk About Incentives?
July 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Behavioral Econ · Fun With Data · Incentives · Videos
As I mentioned in my last post, one of my functions as econgirl is to go around to schools and companies and talk about economics, and I figured that I would share a bit of that with you here. This particular talk was about incentives- when they work, when they don’t, and how consumers [...]
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Just For Fun: Incentives, For The Grad Students Out There…
July 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Incentives · Just For Fun
From Piled Higher & Deeper:
A not-unrelated question: Would you rather promote your best employee or your worst?
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Follow Up: More On Incentives From Dan Pink, Now With Cartoons…
June 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Follow Ups · Incentives
Economic Principle #4: People respond to incentives. Hmmm…if you think about it, the part that gets left out of that statement is HOW people respond to incentives. I wrote before about Dan Pink’s TED talk on behavioral responses to incentives in a number of different contexts. A brief summary: Incentives (specifically [...]
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Educational Incentives: I Hope Those Horses Know How To Swim…
May 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Incentives
So you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink…what happens when you try to get him to drink but he doesn’t know how and falls in the lake instead?
A friend posted an article on my Facebook wall about the results of several educational incentive programs (i.e. paying students to get [...]
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