Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Universität <Bonn> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher … - 2010
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A keyhypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties betweensupervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from acall center organization...