Anti-Social Behavior in Profit and Nonprofit Organizations

65 Pages Posted: 28 Sep 2012

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Emmanuelle Auriol

University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE); University of Toulouse I - Advanced Research in Quantitative Applied Development Economics (ARQADE); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Stefanie Brilon

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Date Written: March 2012

Abstract

Two types of intrinsically motivated workers are considered: "good" workers care about the mission of an organization, whereas "bad" workers derive pleasure from destructive behavior. While mission-oriented organizations take advantage of the intrinsic motivation of good workers, they are more vulnerable than profit-oriented organizations to anti-social behavior: bad workers only join them to behave badly. To prevent this, monitoring has to go up in the mission-oriented sector, while the incentives for good behavior stay the same. In the profit-oriented sector, by contrast, both monitoring and bonus payments for good behavior increase to control the damage caused by bad workers. As a result, in equilibrium bad workers are generally working in the for-profit sector where they behave like "normal" people, while good workers self select into the mission-oriented sector.

Keywords: candidate selection, motivated agents, non-profit, sabotage

JEL Classification: D21, D23, L31

Suggested Citation

Auriol, Emmanuelle and Brilon, Stefanie, Anti-Social Behavior in Profit and Nonprofit Organizations (March 2012). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2153441

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