relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/45453/ title: Motivating Public Sector Employees: Public Good Contributions in Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority creator: Joseph, George creator: Miquel-Florensa, Josepa creator: Hoo, Yi Rong creator: Pahuja, Sanjay creator: Tebekew, Tewodros subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE description: We present a lab-in-the-field experiment with employees of the Addis Ababa Water and Sanitation Authority with the aim to understand how to improve coordination and collaboration in their daily crew work. Participants play a series of public good games under different rules: standard game, with identifiable set of partners, game with threshold, and game with a randomly selected anonymous leader with the power to punish. We show that a common goal, in the form of a threshold to be attained for the group success, is significantly more effetive than a potentially punishing leader to increase individual effort and ultimately group outcomes. This result advocates for the introduction of team goals as coordination and motivation devices in settings where tasks are performed by groups and are subject to free-riding and coordination challenges. publisher: TSE Working Paper date: 2022-05 type: Monograph type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/45453/1/wp_tse_1336.pdf identifier: Joseph, George, Miquel-Florensa, Josepa , Hoo, Yi Rong, Pahuja, Sanjay and Tebekew, Tewodros (2022) Motivating Public Sector Employees: Public Good Contributions in Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1336, Toulouse relation: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/126939 language: en