Arbeitspapier

Peer Evaluation: Incentives and Co-Worker Relations

In many workplaces co-workers have the best information about each other's effort. Managers may attempt to exploit this information through peer evaluation. I study peer evaluation in a pure moral hazard model of production by two limitedly liable agents. Agents receive a signal about their colleague's effort level, and are asked to report it to the principal. The principal may give an individual bonus for the receipt of a positive evaluation by a colleague, which stimulates effort as long as signals are revealed truthfully. A cost of lying ascertains that there can be truthful revelation. I show that interpersonal relations between colleagues constrain the bonus for receiving a positive evaluation in order to keep evaluations truthful. Still, the principal will always include such a bonus in the optimal contract, and possibly complement it with a team bonus. Co-worker relations have non-monotic effects on profits in the optimal contract.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 10-055/1

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Contract: Theory
Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Personnel Economics: General
Thema
peer evaluation
peer appraisal
incentive contracts
co-worker relations
likeability bias
Arbeitskräfte
Soziale Beziehungen
Informationsverbreitung
Anreizvertrag
Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sol, Joeri
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sol, Joeri
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2010

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