Jeworrek, SabrinaMertins, Vanessa2025-05-292019kxp: 1666364649https://epflicht.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/handle/123456789/76131666364649urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-1075482971681The mission of a job does not only affect the type of worker attracted to an organisation, but may also provide incentives to an existing workforce. We conducted a natural field experiment with 267 short-time workers and randomly allocated them to either a prosocial or a commercial job. Our data suggest that the mission of a job itself has a performance enhancing motivational impact on particular individuals only, i.e., workers with a prosocial attitude. However, the mission is very important if it has been actively selected. Those workers who have chosen to contribute to a social cause outperform the ones randomly assigned to the same job by about 15 percent. This effect seems to be a universal phenomenon which is not driven by information about the alternative job, the choice itself or a particular subgroup.1 Online-Ressource (III, 31 Seiten, 0,71 MB) : Diagrammeenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/330Book