A Study on Competition Supremacy Over Cooperation

Abstract

Many complex tasks are supposed to embody a speed-accuracy trade-off which proposes within work teams cooperative rewards promote accuracy, whereas competitive rewards promote speed. But on the implementation side managers are suspicious about the accuracy of limited outcomes. To test the idea a research had been organized using the most popular strategic online game platform between the years 2014 and 2017. After the validation of measures a series of regression analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses and to define the direction of relations. The obtained data from the primary data were confirmed the predicted proposal of supremacy of competition over cooperation between work team members. The reward structure, the competitive past, and the tendency of trust between the members of work teams seem to have minor performance effects comparing the degree of competition. In the research model design some crucial conditions such as randomly assigning teams to conditions, randomly assigning people to teams, obtaining objective measures of accuracy and speed, and creating objectively identical task demands have been met. The study was one of the first attempts to propose managers to choose competition which lose strength by co-experience of employees and mechanic organizational performance.