Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36827 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4913
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization which contains not only subjective assessments but also several more objective measures of performance. Controlling for these performance measures, we find strong evidence that evaluations are upwards biased in smaller teams and some evidence that supervisors give better ratings to employees they themselves have evaluated before.
Subjects: 
Subjective performance evaluation
bias
social ties
team size
favoritism
JEL: 
D03
M52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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