Tag
workplace_productivity
2 findings
Behaviour & psychologyEmployee-Defined Commitment ContractsWorkers voluntarily selected positive production targets 28% of the time, and choosing commitment contracts increased production by 120 fields (a 2% increase over the baseline of 5,311 fields), while evening target choices boosted earnings by 3%. Workers missed self-selected targets only 2.6% of the time compared to 8.6%–14.1% for firm-imposed targets.RCTBehaviour & psychologySupervisor-Reinforced RemindersTarget achievement increased by 70.0 percentage points (coefficient = 0.698, p < 0.10; with controls coefficient = 0.854, p < 0.05) and the workload gap index decreased by 9.58 points (p < 0.05) during Phase 2 when branch managers provided weekly reminders, whereas Phase 1 showed no statistically significant effect (coefficient = -0.081, p > 0.10).RCT