TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gill, David
AU  - Prowse, Victoria L.
AU  - Vlassopoulos, Michael
        TI  - Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
        PY  - 2012/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6725
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6725
        AB  - We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that induce considerable uncertainty in how much workers are paid. Exposing workers to a compensation scheme based on random bonuses makes them cheat more but has no effect on their productivity. We also find that more productive workers behave more dishonestly. We explain how these results suggest that workers' cheating behavior responds to the perceived fairness of their employer's compensation scheme.
        KW  - productivity
KW  - employee crime
KW  - lying
KW  - dishonesty
KW  - cheating
KW  - compensation
KW  - real effort
KW  - bonus
KW  - slider task
KW  - experiment
        ER  -