Cherry Pickin Gold Brickin Sand Bagger
Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation:
Field Experimental Evidence
Today Justin gave me a hard copy of the rough draft of this scholarly paper, dated January 5, 2005. The abstract can be found at that link above and I’m sure you can find the complete paper and all its findings on-line too.
Bike messengers make a good study group, displaying behaviors that are found in the general population, but it’s much more fun to get your university to fund a study that requires you to hang with messengers in SF and Zurich. It’s worthwhile reading and interesting. Taking a look at both commissioned and hourly messengers…We all know a few cherry pickers, sandbaggers, goldbrickers and total slacker shit bags. However we just don’t discuss them in the same terminology used in this paper. For example:
…the degree and selfishly rational behavior of its messengers can affect the efficiency of the firm because uncooperative behavior can lead to the misallocation of messenger resources over the geographic area serviced by the firm.
I could of have told you that in a fewer words, for less money. But don’t get me wrong, I encourage you to read the full study.
both Egoists and Altruists.
PS.
there's a little plug for pilderwasser in the Grinnell College Anthropology Department's Fall newsletter. I did go to school there and I was an Anthro major, however it still seems out of place, disconnected, A world away Hey Jimbo,where the hell is Grinnell? All roads lead to Grinnell, Iowa. RAGBRAI is just around the corner.
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