First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision - Gill, David; Kissová, Zdenka; Lee, Jaesun; Prowse, Victoria (Management science, 2019)
Keywords: Academic achievement; Analysis; Awards & honors; dynamic effort provision; Educational administration; Educational attainment; Employee incentives; Employee performance; Feedback; fixed wage; flat wage; Incentives; Leverage; Organizational structure; Performance appraisal; private feedback; public feedback; rank order feedback; Ranking and selection (Statistics); real-effort experiment; relative performance evaluation; relative performance feedback; self-esteem; social esteem; status seeking; taste for rank; Workplaces; United States