Team-Based Incentives in Problem-Solving Organizations

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Authority and Incentives in Organizations

The paper analyzes the choice of organizational structure as solution to the trade-off between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. The analysis includes the owner of a firm, a top manager and two division heads. If it is more expensive to incentivize the division heads, the owner will prefer full delegation of authority to them to r...

Decision Making Skill and Complex Problem Solving in Team Sports

The Impact of Family / School-Based Problem Solving Training on Problem-Solving Styles of Elementary Students

Background and Purpose: Problem solving is one of the structured cognitive programs that provides a range of efficient responses to deal with the problematic situations of life. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of family / school-based problem solving training on problem-solving styles of elementary students. Method: The present study was an experimental research with prete...

Team-Based Incentives in the NHS: An Economic Analysis

The NHS Plan welcomes the use of team rewards but does not specify how team based incentives are to be implemented or make clear what types of teams such incentives are to be given to. This paper looks for insights from economic theory on how to define teams and optimal incentive schemes within them. We give a brief description of the incentive mechanisms suggested in the NHS Plan and discuss t...