Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution-An Experimental Investigation

A real-effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors are not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution syste...

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Volume:	59
Main Author:	Johannes Berger Christine Harbring Dirk Sliwka
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	CATONSVILLE INFORMS 01.01.2013 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
published in:	Management science Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 54 - 68
Data of publication:	20130100
ISSN:	0025-1909 1526-5501
EISSN:	1526-5501
Discipline:	Business
Subjects:	experiment forced distribution forced ranking motivation performance measurement Labor economics Experimental economics Pay for performance Management science Personnel evaluation Employee supervision Job performance evaluation Behavioral economics Sabotage Mathematical dependent variables Business & Economics Operations Research & Management Science Social Sciences Management Technology Science & Technology Employee motivation Analysis Employee performance MARKET forced distribution FIELD BIAS motivation forced ranking performance measurement experiment DISCRETION TOURNAMENTS EQUALITY WORK FAIRNESS RECIPROCITY GIFT EXCHANGE
Online Access:	Fulltext
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