Ego-relevance in team production

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Mantilla C., Murad Z.

PLOS ONE, vol.17, no.12, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Nəşrin Növü: Article / Article
  • Cild: 17 Say: 12
  • Nəşr tarixi: 2022
  • Doi nömrəsi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279391
  • jurnalın adı: PLOS ONE
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  • Adres: Yox

Qısa məlumat

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.