Individual incentives in supervised work groups: from human subject experiments to agent based simulation. (6th February 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dal Forno, Arianna; Merlone, Ugo
• Is Part Of: International journal of internet and enterprise management. Volume 6:Number 1(2009)
• Page Start: 4
• Page End: 22
• Publication Date: 2009-02-06
• Subjects: agent behaviour -- experiments -- bounded rationality -- incentives -- grounded theory -- equity theory -- supervised work groups -- work group interaction -- subordinates -- worker dissatisfaction -- agent-based simulation -- performance measures; Internet -- Periodicals; Business information services -- Periodicals; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Management -- Periodicals; Business enterprises -- Computer networks -- Periodicals; 004.678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-1300

Abstract

We consider a model of work group interaction and introduce an incentive scheme in order to prevent dissatisfaction in subordinates. Several behaviours, which are grounded on observing human subjects when interacting in a similar task, are implemented in artificial agents and simulated. Our results shed light on some aspects of interaction between individuals in complex environment and economic performance, and give insights in terms of observation of the performance measures in organisations.