Article 5.2. The effect of incentives in non-routine analytical team tasks – evidence from a field experiment (Englmaier et al., 2018)

Question 1

Study of Englmaier et al. (2018)

Answer 1

The effects of incentives and crowding out of intrinsic motivation, in real-life escape games.
Findings:
- Incentives increase team performance.
- The framing of incentives (gains/losses) has a minor effect.
- Incentives made teams less likely to explore on their own.
- Incentives may lead to leadership in teams and more focused approaches.