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Subjective performance evaluations and employee careers
Frederiksen, Anders; Lange, Fabian; Kriechel, Ben - 2012
Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532149
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Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance : Evidence from Figure Skating
Lee, Jungmin - 2021
subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests a simple model of what I call "outlier aversion bias" in which subjective … evaluators avoid submitting outlying judgments. We find significant evidence for the existence of outlier aversion. Individual … for outlier aversion. Agreement may not be a good criterion for the validity of an evaluation system, contradicting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319101
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Unit Nonresponse Bias in Inequality Measurement : Worldwide Analysis Using Luxembourg Income Study Database
Hlasny, Vladimir - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903486
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Own-nationality bias : evidence from UEFA Champions League football referees
Pope, Bryson R.; Pope, Nolan G. - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 53 (2015) 2, pp. 1292-1304
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344335
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Working for a Good Cause
Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2011
A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326218
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Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance : Evidence from Figure Skating
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests a simple model of what I call "outlier aversion bias" in which subjective … evaluators avoid submitting outlying judgments. We find significant evidence for the existence of outlier aversion. Individual … for outlier aversion. Agreement may not be a good criterion for the validity of an evaluation system, contradicting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262009
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Subjective performance evaluations and employee careers
Frederiksen, Anders; Lange, Fabian; Kriechel, Ben - 2012
Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282378
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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment
Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012
This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an expert leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and industry experience. After controlling for confounding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287664
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Working for a good cause
Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2012
A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291339
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Working for a good cause
Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720708