Evaluations: Hidden Costs, Questionable Benefits, and Superior Alternatives

Arbeitspapier

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, performance evaluations in research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly, the benefits of performance evaluations are questionable. Evaluations provide too little information relevant for decision-making. In addition, they lose importance due to new forms of scientific cooperation on the internet. Thirdly, there exist superior alternatives. They consist in careful selection and supportive process coaching - and then leave individuals and research institutions to direct themselves.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2006-23

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory ; Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact ; Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Higher Education; Research Institutions ; Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
• Thema: Evaluation ; rankings ; hidden costs ; multi tasking ; intrinsic motivation ; control theory ; selection

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Frey, Bruno S. ; Osterloh, Margit
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
• (wo): Basel
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/214369
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ