Compensation Report: Smaller Bonuses Lead to Greater Results?
November 25th, 2008
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Duke Professor Dan Ariely discusses his research on the effects of bonuses, revealing a somewhat counter-intuitive result: large bonuses lead to poor results with regard to cognitive tasks. Ariely mentions that he offered to test this hypothesis in an investment bank but, intuitively, could not find any takers.
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