Ego-relevance in team production.
We study how individuals' effort contribution to a team production task varies depending on whether the task is ego relevant or not. We conduct an experiment to test the effect of ego-relevance when the team production depends on the team's top- or bottom-performer. Ego-relevance is manipu...
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| author | César Mantilla Zahra Murad |
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| description | We study how individuals' effort contribution to a team production task varies depending on whether the task is ego relevant or not. We conduct an experiment to test the effect of ego-relevance when the team production depends on the team's top- or bottom-performer. Ego-relevance is manipulated by calling the Raven IQ Test an "IQ Task" or a "Pattern Task." We find that the effort contributed to the task is affected by ego-relevance and the impact of the team production function on effort contribution is mediated by the teammate's expected effort contribution. Ego-relevance increases the responsiveness to the teammate's expected effort contributions. Similarly, more responsive behavior is noticeable when the team production depends on the bottom-performer. However, we do not observe interaction-effects between ego-relevance and the team production function that affect effort contributions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f304e5f093fc4fbca9b6a627b2d818fc2022-12-31T05:31:41ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-011712e027939110.1371/journal.pone.0279391Ego-relevance in team production.César MantillaZahra MuradWe study how individuals' effort contribution to a team production task varies depending on whether the task is ego relevant or not. We conduct an experiment to test the effect of ego-relevance when the team production depends on the team's top- or bottom-performer. Ego-relevance is manipulated by calling the Raven IQ Test an "IQ Task" or a "Pattern Task." We find that the effort contributed to the task is affected by ego-relevance and the impact of the team production function on effort contribution is mediated by the teammate's expected effort contribution. Ego-relevance increases the responsiveness to the teammate's expected effort contributions. Similarly, more responsive behavior is noticeable when the team production depends on the bottom-performer. However, we do not observe interaction-effects between ego-relevance and the team production function that affect effort contributions.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279391 |
| spellingShingle | César Mantilla Zahra Murad Ego-relevance in team production. PLoS ONE |
| title | Ego-relevance in team production. |
| title_full | Ego-relevance in team production. |
| title_fullStr | Ego-relevance in team production. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ego-relevance in team production. |
| title_short | Ego-relevance in team production. |
| title_sort | ego relevance in team production |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279391 |
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