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Last Published
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September 28, 2018 02:23 PM
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October 10, 2018 05:13 AM
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Intervention (Public)
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Different forms work task in an experiment online.
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Different forms of work task description in an experiment online.
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Primary Outcomes (Explanation)
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Dependent Variables or Outcome Measures are participants' time take to complete the work task, the number of mistakes they make, the ratio between both, and whether they agree to do an additional 7th worksheet. We expect that all 4 of these DVs will be affected by the ownership status of the organization people work for.After completing the 6 worksheets, participants are asked if they want to finish the task, or whether they would do an additional worksheet, which ought to measure their prosocial work behavior (because they agree to do an additional worksheet for the organization), assuming that this would be higher in public versus for-profit organizations. Again, measures of this kind are widely used in the literature.
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Primary outcome measure is the number of mistakes made by participants in the work task overall. We expect that this outcome will be affected by the ownership status of the organization people are described as working for.
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Planned Number of Clusters
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600 participants , not clustered
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600 participants who are MTurk workers, not clustered
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Planned Number of Observations
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600 workers are units that are observed
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600 MTurk workers are units that are observed
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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300 workers per treatment arm
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300 MTurk workers per treatment arm
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Intervention (Hidden)
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Our main intervention is providing participants with different forms of an ownership cue (public versus private, for-profit) of the hypothetical organization they are asked to work for in a work task.The study instrument is a work task in which respondents are asked to check (and if necessary) correct numerical entries on 6 hypothetical time sheets.
Typing in the numbers of the times sheets (which is based on a screenshot of handwritten sheets) into a data entry form is the first part. As a second step, they need to check whether calculations displayed on a respective time sheet are accurate and correct them if necessary. Respondent performance in terms of correctly entering numbers, correcting mistakes and the time it take them doing so as a measure of their work performance, which we hypothesize to vary for public vs for-profit organizations. Work task instruments of this kind or commonly employed in applied psychology, behavioral economics or in public management (e.g., Anderson and Stritch 2016; Bradler, Dur and Non 2016; Kvaløy, Nieken, and Schöttner 2015).
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Our main intervention is providing participants with different forms of an ownership cue (public versus private, for-profit) of the hypothetical organization they are asked to work for in a work task.The study instrument is a work task in which respondents are asked to check (and if necessary) correct numerical entries on 6 hypothetical time sheets. In both forms of ownership cue intervention, the participants undertake the following: Typing in the numbers of the times sheets (which is based on a screenshot of handwritten sheets) into a data entry form is the first part. As a second step, they need to check whether calculations displayed on a respective time sheet are accurate and correct them if necessary. Respondent performance in terms of correctly entering numbers, correcting mistakes and the time it take them doing so as a measure of their work performance, which we hypothesize to vary for public vs for-profit organizations. Work task instruments of this kind or commonly employed in applied psychology, behavioral economics or in public management.
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Secondary Outcomes (End Points)
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After the primary outcomes, participants are whether they used a calculator (yes or no), and then nine items that tap the individual’s conscientiousness taken from the Big Five personality traits inventory. People are also asked about their gender, age and what type of organization they do work for (public, private or nonprofit). The final question is a manipulation check, asking participants if they remember whether the organization mentioned on the time sheets is a public or private, for-profit organization.
At end of the study, part pants are debriefed and informed about the full purpose of the study.
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Secondary outcomes are the time take to complete the work task, the ratio between mistakes and time, and whether they agree to do an additional 7th worksheet (after completing the 6 worksheets), which ought to measure their prosocial work behavior (because they agree to do an additional worksheet for the organization), assuming that this would be higher in public versus for-profit organizations. Measures of this kind are widely used in the literature.
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Secondary Outcomes (Explanation)
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These additional outcomes are manipulation checks to assess the effectiveness of treatments and secondary measures to assess whether participants utilized tools that might help them in the task, the calculator.
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These additional outcomes are further affected by the interventions.
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