Do you prefer having more or more than others in the workplace? A quasi-experimental survey in algeria

Latifa Barbara (1) , Gilles Grolleau (2, 3) , Naoufel Mzoughi (4)

1 MDI Alger Business School
2 BSB - Burgundy School of Business (BSB) - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon Bourgogne (ESC)
3 LAMETA - Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée
4 ECODEVELOPPEMENT - Unité de recherche d'Écodéveloppement

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.

Mots clés: positional goods; relative standings; workplace

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Latifa Barbara, Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi. Do you prefer having more or more than others in the workplace? A quasi-experimental survey in algeria. Managerial and Decision Economics, 2016, Online (4), 12 p. ⟨10.1002/mde.2806⟩. ⟨hal-01506479⟩