- Your employer—an airline—wants your team to reduce turnaround time: the amount of time planes spend on the ground between flights.
- For each plane, each team member simultaneously chooses an effort level: how many minutes to reduce her usual work time.
- You make your choice by moving the slider and pressing Submit.
- You incur a cost for each minute you save in completing your task.
- Reduction in turnaround time equals the smallest effort level chosen by anyone in your group.
- Each member of the group receives a bonus for each minute reduction in turnaround time.
You saved 4 minutes. Your three group members saved 3, 5 and 7 minutes.
| Payoff | = | Bonus | - | Effort Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payoff | = | Effort Bonus × Minimum Effort | - | Effort Cost × Your Effort |
| 2 | = | $2 × 3 | - | $1 × 4 |
