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Loss averse agents and lenient supervisors in performance appraisal

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REGGIANI Tommaso RIZZOLLI Matteo MARCHEGIANI Lucia

Rok publikování 2016
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

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www http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268116301573
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.07.022
Obor Ekonomie
Klíčová slova Performance appraisal - Type I and Type II errors - Leniency bias - Severity bias - Economic experiment - Loss aversion
Popis A consistent empirical literature shows that in many organizations supervisors systematically overrate their employees’ performance. Such leniency bias is at odds with the standard principal-agent model and has been explained with causes that range from social interactions to fairness concerns and to collusive behavior between the supervisor and the agent. We show that the principal-agent model, extended to consider loss-aversion and reference-dependent preferences, predicts that the leniency bias is comparatively less detrimental to effort provision than the severity bias. We test this prediction with a laboratory experiment where we demonstrate that failing to reward deserving agents is significantly more detrimental than rewarding undeserving agents. This offers a novel explanation as to why supervisors tend to be lenient in their appraisals.

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