Turning relative deprivation into a performance incentive device

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Journal of Mathematical Sociology Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/0022250X.2020.1787407

O. Stark, Grzegorz Kosiorowski

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals’ effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative deprivation, which measures by how much the individual trails behind other individuals in the set doing better than him. We seek to divide the set into an exogenously predetermined number of groups (subsets) in order to maximize aggregate relative deprivation, so as to ensure that the incentive for the individuals to work or study harder because of unfavorable comparison with others is at its strongest. We find that the solution to this problem depends only on the individuals’ ordinally measured levels of performance independent of the performance of comparators.

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将相对剥夺转化为绩效激励手段

摘要当个人的表现落后于他们自然比较的其他人时，他们倾向于提高自己的表现，这可以用来优化个人在工作和学习中的努力。在给定的一组个体中，我们通过每个个体的相对剥夺来表征每个个体，这是通过个体在多大程度上落后于其他比他做得更好的个体来衡量的。我们试图将集合划分为外源性预定数量的组（子集），以最大限度地提高总体相对剥夺，从而确保个人因与他人的不利比较而更加努力地工作或学习的动机最强。我们发现，这个问题的解决方案只取决于个人的日常衡量表现水平，而与比较器的表现无关。

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Journal of Mathematical Sociology 数学-数学跨学科应用

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The goal of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology is to publish models and mathematical techniques that would likely be useful to professional sociologists. The Journal also welcomes papers of mutual interest to social scientists and other social and behavioral scientists, as well as papers by non-social scientists that may encourage fruitful connections between sociology and other disciplines. Reviews of new or developing areas of mathematics and mathematical modeling that may have significant applications in sociology will also be considered. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology is published in association with the International Network for Social Network Analysis, the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, and the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association.