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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? : The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories

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dc.creator Dickinson, David
dc.creator Villeval, Marie-Claire
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:10:43Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:10:43Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20475
dc.identifier ppn:392649748
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20475
dc.description Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate the agent to raise his effort level whereas the ?crowding-out? literature suggests that it may reduce the overall work effort. These two assertions are not necessarily contradictory provided that the nature of the employment relationship is taken into account (Frey, 1993). Based upon a realtask laboratory experiment, our results show that principals are not trustful enough to refrain from monitoring the agents, and most of the agents react to the disciplining effect of monitoring. However we find also some evidence that intrinsic motivation is crowded out when monitoring is above a certain threshold. We identify that both interpersonal principal/agent links and concerns for the distribution of output payoff are important for the emergence of this crowding out effect.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1222
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject M5
dc.subject C92
dc.subject J24
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject principal-agent theory
dc.subject monitoring
dc.subject crowding-out
dc.subject motivation
dc.subject real effort experiment
dc.subject Agency Theory
dc.subject Leistungskontrolle
dc.subject Leistungsmotivation
dc.subject Vertrauen
dc.subject Crowding out
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? : The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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