We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and …-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about employee performance. Our controlled laboratory experiment confirms … performance. …

We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and …-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about employee performance. Our controlled laboratory experiment confirms … performance. …

costs are non-verifiable ex-post and the team performance measure exhibits congruency problems, the principal even wants to …

aggregate performance measurement. Due to cost advantages of specialization, assigning the tasks to different agents is … production process. Imperfect performance measurement always lowers profit under multitasking, but may increase profit under …

We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the … outset objective performance measures of pro fits in each branch were only available on the branch level and managers … to individual performance measures. We find a significant positive impact of objective performance measurement on effort …

substantial negative impact on the probability that an employee's pay is performance contingent. …

performance measurement is costly. If social norms matter such that some agents' reliability is influenced by their beliefs on the …

effects of performance pay and simple upfront messages (praise or reference points) on performance. The second experiment … concentrates on the effects of communication techniques used by charismatic leaders. Performance pay increases output significantly …

interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied … by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay reduces performance unless it is accompanied by motivational talk. By … adding motivational sentences to an otherwise neutral explanation of the work task, the effect of performance pay goes from …

interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only when accompanied by … performance pay. Moreover, performance pay slightly reduces performance unless it is accompanied by motivational talk. These … effects also carry over to the quality of work. Performance pay alone leads to more mistakes. Adding motivational talk makes …