for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relation between the use of company performance … apply pooled Poisson as well as linear fixed effects estimations. We show that the use of performance appraisals is … of a works council strengthens the negative relationship between performance appraisals and presenteeism. The results are …

our model on a 20-year panel of pay and performance measures from a single, large firm (the Baker-Gibbs-Holmstrom data …). Incorporating performance measures yields two key innovations. First, the panel structure implies that we have repeat measures of … literature on employer learning. -- employer learning ; productivity ; performance evaluations ; personnel …

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We … performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if information about one's relative standing towards the reference point is withheld …. -- Reference points ; incentives ; bonus payments ; job satisfaction ; job performance …

Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion and symbolic awards depend on the rank of workers … in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever firms use rank-order relative-performance evaluation, workers … discuss implications of our findings for the optimal design of firms' performance feedback policies, workplace organizational …

-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …