Evaluitis – Eine Neue Krankheit

Bruno S. Frey ()

No iewwp293, IEW - Working Papers from Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW

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.

Keywords: Evaluation; Performance; Selection; Research; Incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 D61 H43 M40 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-06
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