A Model for Team Managers in the Presence of Self-Serving Workers

29 Pages Posted: 5 Dec 2006

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Brice Corgnet

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Date Written: October 2006

Abstract

We develop a model of team formation in which workers learn about their level of ability. We show that insufficient cooperation may arise as workers learn positively about their own skills. We then build a model for team managers and establish that their objectivity in assessing coworkers' abilities may facilitate cooperation among agents. This is the case because managers are able to design team contracts based on workers' true performances. Our work provides a motive for the existence of team managers in the absence of asymmetry of information.

Keywords: Team management, Self-serving biases, Self-managed teams

JEL Classification: C72, D23, D82, K12, M12, M14, M54

Suggested Citation

Corgnet, Brice, A Model for Team Managers in the Presence of Self-Serving Workers (October 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=949527 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.949527

Brice Corgnet (Contact Author)

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ( email )

E-28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain