Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214364 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2006-18
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
"Evaluitis" - i.e. ex post assessments of organizations and persons - has become a rapidly spreading disease. In addition to the well-known costs imposed on evaluees and evaluators, additional significant costs are commonly disregarded: incentives are distorted, ossification is induced and the decision approach is wrongly conceived. As a result, evaluations are used too often and too intensively. A viable and often superior alternative to evaluations is a careful selection of persons and afterwards leaving them to pursue their assigned tasks.
Subjects: 
Evaluation
Performance
Selection
Research
Incentives
JEL: 
D23
D61
H43
M40
M5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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