Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35002 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3685
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some input to the non-profit unit, but has opportunity costs in doing so (e.g. Dean of faculty, corrupt representative, government agency). We find that marginal changes in the balance of power eventually have dramatic effects on donated labor. We also identify when strengthening the non-profit unit decreases and when it increases donated labor.
Subjects: 
Donated labor
intrinsic motivation
non-profit organizations
power within organizations
JEL: 
L30
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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