Anik, LalinAknin, Lara B.Norton, Michael I.Dunn, Elizabeth W.Quoidbach, Jordi2023-02-132023-02-132013Anik L, Aknin LB, Norton MI, Dunn EW, Quoidbach J. Prosocial bonuses increase employee satisfaction and team performance. PLoS ONE. 2013 Sep 18;8(9):e75509. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.00755091932-6203http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55743In three field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and teammates with prosocial bonuses, a novel type of bonus spent on others rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier and more satisfied employees at an Australian bank. In Experiments 2a and 2b, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of expenditures on teammates lead to better performance in both sports teams in Canada and pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses – shifting the focus from the self to others – can produce measurable benefits for employees and organizations.application/pdfeng© 2013 Anik et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ProfessionsTreballTreball -- Aspectes socialsTreball en equipinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075509info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess