Changing Incentives in a Multi-task Environment: Evidence from a Top-Tier Business School
Preprint
- 10 September 1998
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This study focuses on changes in incentives at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration in the early 1990s to redirect effort from academic research to classroom teaching. We find a substantial and almost immediate jump in teaching ratings following the changes in incentives. Longer-run learning and turnover effects are present. Evidence also suggests that research output fell. This case illustrates the power of organizational incentives to redirect effort in a multi-task environment, even in the presence of apparent human-capital constraints.Keywords
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