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We propose a novel experimental design to study counterproductive behaviour in a principal agent setting.
Participants can engage in various forms of counterproductive behaviour, none of them being offered to them explicitly.
On average counterproductive behaviour amounts to 10percentt of the average productivity, almost all arising through mistakes and overreporting of output.
The design allows us to study and derive clean measures of different forms of counterproductive behaviour in a controlled but non-obtrusive manner.
Moreover, we find that both productive and counterproductive behaviour are significantly higher under competition than under the two other pay schemes.
We present an application of the design to study the effects of different pay schemes (competition, fixed pay and piece rate) on counterproductive behaviour.
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Consequently, some workers did not take initiatives to facilitate health service provision to clients and sometimes counterproductive behaviours were observed.
Research has shown that incivility and other counterproductive behaviours in the workplace have a significant and negative impact on employees, and so Holloway and Kusy [ 82] developed a Toxic Organization Change System to reduce and monitor this type of behaviour.
If damage is done to a hospital's reputation because internal information was made public, a phenomenon called counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) has occurred.
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