The process of having supervisors discuss, compare, justify, and potentially adjust their subordinates' performance ratings in a meeting with their peer supervisors is referred to as peer-level calibration. Although calibration committees are widely used, there is considerable debate about their...

This study investigates how the distribution of task properties feedback interacts with goal-contingent pay in a complex task. We experimentally examine how task properties feedback with identical content influences performance when employees receive the feedback either evenly throughout a task...

Managers often face the choice between promoting an internal employee and hiring an external candidate. Using an incentivized experiment, we examine managers’ promote/hire decision and employees’ behavior before and after that decision in a setting in which the external candidate has...