eprintid: 45453 rev_number: 17 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/04/54/53 datestamp: 2022-05-23 13:46:48 lastmod: 2025-01-22 13:15:50 status_changed: 2025-01-22 13:15:50 type: monograph metadata_visibility: no_search creators_name: Joseph, George creators_name: Miquel-Florensa, Josepa creators_name: Hoo, Yi Rong creators_name: Pahuja, Sanjay creators_name: Tebekew, Tewodros creators_idrefppn: 241586844 creators_affiliation: 1002422 creators_halaffid: 1002422 title: Motivating Public Sector Employees: Public Good Contributions in Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: 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. date: 2022-05 date_type: published publisher: TSE Working Paper official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/126939 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE subjectsJEL: JEL_J45 subjectsJEL: JEL_M50 subjectsJEL: JEL_O12 view_date_year: 2022 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper series: TSE Working Paper volume: 22-1336 place_of_pub: Toulouse pages: 37 institution: Université Toulouse Capitole department: Toulouse School of Economics book_title: TSE Working Paper oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:126939 harvester_local_overwrite: department harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: abstract harvester_local_overwrite: institution harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: pages harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: note harvester_local_overwrite: publish_to_hal harvester_local_overwrite: creators_affiliation oai_lastmod: 2024-06-24T13:49:59Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 publish_to_hal: FALSE citation: 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 document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/45453/1/wp_tse_1336.pdf