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Do You Prefer Having More or More than Others in the Workplace? A Quasi‐experimental Survey in Algeria
Author(s) -
Barbara Latifa,
Grolleau Gilles,
Mzoughi Naoufel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.2806
Subject(s) - praise , endowment , supervisor , context (archaeology) , wage , demographic economics , innovator , work (physics) , social psychology , psychology , economics , labour economics , political science , management , geography , law , engineering , finance , mechanical engineering , archaeology , entrepreneurship
We examine the relevance of relative standings in Algeria (North Africa). We focus on the workplace, by considering domains generally important in this specific context: income, extra wage, office size, free days, worked hours, days being ill, offered company car, traffic jam when going to work, and being praised and berated by supervisor. Respondents prefer equality situations (i.e., where everyone has the same endowment) rather than positional and absolute ones (i.e., where they have the highest relative and absolute levels, respectively). An exception is found regarding praise by supervisor where the proportions of individuals choosing positional states are the highest. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.