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| Title: | Effects of individual and team competitive rewards on collaboration and productivity of team |
| Author (s): | Boggavarapu, K. Veluru, N.K. Takai, Shun |
| Department/Lab Affiliations: | Design Engineering Center Intelligent Systems Center Interdisciplinary Engineering |
| Keywords: | Collaboration Grade Grade point Prisoner's dilemma Reward |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| Citation: | Boggavarapu, K., Veluru, N.K., and Takai, S., “Effects of Individual and Team Competitive Rewards on Collaboration and Productivity of Team,” 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, WA. IMECE2007-42427. |
| Abstract: | In the modern system development approach, engineers with diverse discipline form teams and work together in engineering projects. An example is a cross functional team in concurrent engineering. It is important to design incentive systems that maximize team achievements; however, there is a tradeoff between rewarding individual vs. team achievements. Rewarding solely on individual achievements may hinder the overall team achievements, while rewarding solely on team achievements may lead to the phenomenon called social loafing or free riding in which individuals tend to perform worse or contribute less in group. This paper studied the effects of competitive rewards based on individual and team's achievements by conducting experiments using prisoner's dilemma game (PDG) in which participants face tradeoff between working more or less in hypothetical individual and team assignments. The unique approach in this paper is to decompose the overall PDG payoff matrix into payoff matrix for individual achievements and that for team achievements to test the effects of individual and team competitive rewards. The experiment results suggested that introduction of team competitive rewards resulted in higher cooperation among team members and overall productivity, compared to when individual competitive rewards were introduced. |
| Type: | Article - Conference proceedings text |
| In Title: | 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition November 2007, Seattle, Washington USA (IMECE2007) |
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| title | Effects of individual and team competitive rewards on collaboration and productivity of team |
| contributor.author | Boggavarapu, K. |
| contributor.author | Veluru, N.K. |
| contributor.author | Takai, Shun |
| contributor.deptlab | Design Engineering Center |
| contributor.deptlab | Intelligent Systems Center |
| contributor.deptlab | Interdisciplinary Engineering |
| subject | Collaboration |
| subject | Grade |
| subject | Grade point |
| subject | Prisoner's dilemma |
| subject | Reward |
| date.issued | 2007 |
| publisher | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| identifier.citation | Boggavarapu, K., Veluru, N.K., and Takai, S., “Effects of Individual and Team Competitive Rewards on Collaboration and Productivity of Team,” 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, WA. IMECE2007-42427. |
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| description.abstract | In the modern system development approach, engineers with diverse discipline form teams and work together in engineering projects. An example is a cross functional team in concurrent engineering. It is important to design incentive systems that maximize team achievements; however, there is a tradeoff between rewarding individual vs. team achievements. Rewarding solely on individual achievements may hinder the overall team achievements, while rewarding solely on team achievements may lead to the phenomenon called social loafing or free riding in which individuals tend to perform worse or contribute less in group. This paper studied the effects of competitive rewards based on individual and team's achievements by conducting experiments using prisoner's dilemma game (PDG) in which participants face tradeoff between working more or less in hypothetical individual and team assignments. The unique approach in this paper is to decompose the overall PDG payoff matrix into payoff matrix for individual achievements and that for team achievements to test the effects of individual and team competitive rewards. The experiment results suggested that introduction of team competitive rewards resulted in higher cooperation among team members and overall productivity, compared to when individual competitive rewards were introduced. |
| type | Article - Conference proceedings |
| type.DCMIType | text |
| type.status | Final version |
| rights | This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. |
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| relation.isPartOf | 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition November 2007, Seattle, Washington USA (IMECE2007) |
| date.accessioned | 2007-04-11T17:00:48Z |
| date.available | 2008-05-08T15:25:14Z |
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