Open AccessTeam characteristics, peer competition threats and individual performance within a working team: An analysis of realtor agents
Author(s) -
Chun Chang Lee
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
suid-afrikaanse tydskrif vir ekonomiese en bestuurswetenskappe/south african journal of economic and management sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2222-3436
pISSN - 1015-8812
DOI - 10.4102/sajems.v17i2.408
Subject(s) - proxy (statistics) , competition (biology) , compensation (psychology) , multilevel model , order (exchange) , scheme (mathematics) , computer science , psychology , operations research , operations management , business , social psychology , economics , engineering , mathematics , machine learning , biology , ecology , mathematical analysis , finance
This paper uses survey data from a questionnaire for brokers given to Kaohsiung realtors in order to explore the effect of the threat of peer competition on an individual’s performance. In the empirical model, the branch “average performance of other agents” is used as the proxy variable for peer competition, and thehierarchical linear modeling (HLM) model is applied for estimation. The empirical results suggest that the average performance by other agents has a significant negative effect on an individual’s performance. Inbranches that have more “agents” or have a “team compensation scheme”, the effect of other agents’ average performance on an individual’s performance is significantly higher than that for the branches with fewer “agents” or without a “team compensation scheme”. These findings are consistent with theoretical expectations