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Mission, motivation, and the active decision to work for a social cause / Sabrina Jeworrek, Vanessa Mertins
VerfasserJeworrek, Sabrina ; Mertins, Vanessa
ErschienenHalle (Saale), Germany : Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) - Member of the Leibniz Association, [2019]
Umfang1 Online-Ressource (III, 31 Seiten, 0,71 MB) : Diagramme
SpracheEnglisch
SerieIWH-Diskussionspapiere ; 2019, no. 10 (May 2019)
URNurn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-107548 
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The mission of a job does not only affect the type of worker attracted to an organisation but may also provide incentives to an existing workforce. We conducted a natural field experiment with 267 short-time workers and randomly allocated them to either a prosocial or a commercial job. Our data suggest that the mission of a job itself has a performance enhancing motivational impact on particular individuals only i.e. workers with a prosocial attitude. However the mission is very important if it has been actively selected. Those workers who have chosen to contribute to a social cause outperform the ones randomly assigned to the same job by about 15 percent. This effect seems to be a universal phenomenon which is not driven by information about the alternative job the choice itself or a particular subgroup.