Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators on Worker Performance: A Longitudinal Field Experiment

这个奖项的目的是研究内在的影响， 动机（例如，目标设定与绩效反馈， 参与）和外在激励（如奖金）对业绩的影响。 该研究涉及纵向田间试验。 它将跨越三个 年，并将在一个多地点的社会服务机构内进行。 这项研究使用了重复的时间序列设计， 干预后基线测量的广泛数据收集工作 并从机构记录、问卷答复和 深度访谈 这些结果将对以下方面产生重要影响： 影响业绩评价设计的管理做法， 奖励制度以及验证某些问题， 动机理论 这是一项雄心勃勃的实地实验，涉及对中央 内在激励与外在激励作用的理论问题 在性能上。 它也是从业者的核心利益 负责设计绩效评估和奖励制度 在组织中。 具体来说，该研究的目的是 确定（1）内在激励系统是否可以改善 员工的表现和态度;（2）是否增加 内在系统的外在回报导致收益或损失， （3）这些收益或损失是否由 内在系统的调整。 关于这个问题的大多数先前的工作 在实验室或短时间内完成。 此外 对理论的验证和扩展以及对 管理实践的研究也将有助于 在现场组织中进行实地实验的方法， 仍处于正式化的早期阶段。

The purpose of this award is to study the effects of intrinsic motivation (e.g. goal setting with performance feedback and participation) and extrinsic motivation (e.g. bonuses) on performance. The study involves a longitudinal field experiment. It will span three years and will be conducted within a multi-site social services agency. The study uses a replicated time series design and involves an extensive data collection effort of baseline measures postintervention and follow up data from agency records, questionnaire responses, and indepth interviews. The results will have important implications for management practice affecting the design of performance evaluation and reward systems as well as for the validation of certain issues in motivation theory. This is an ambitious field experiment involving a study of central theoretical issues on the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators on performance. It is also of central interest to practitioners concerned with the design of performance evaluation and reward systems in organizations. Specifically, the purposes of the study are to determine (1) whether an intrinsic motivation system improves the performance and attitudes of employees; (2) whether the addition of extrinsic rewards to the intrinsic system results in gains or losses in performance; and (3) whether these gains or losses are mediated by adjustments in the intrinsic system. Most prior work on this issue has been done in the laboratory or over short time horizons. In addition to the validation and extension of theory and the implication for management practice the research will also contribute to the methodology of field experimentation in live organizations which is still in early stages of formalization.