Envy, Schadenfreude and evaluation: understanding the strange growing of individual performance appraisal

Bénédicte Vidaillet ()
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Bénédicte Vidaillet: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12

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Abstract: A key question is to understand why, paradoxically, despite the harmful effects of the evaluation systems and the complaints they generate, most people are favorable to their development. What are their reasons? Why would people support practices that end up affecting them negatively? In this chapter, we will make the case that envy is one trigger that explains the growing demand for individual performance appraisal. Such a statement leads us to look with new eyes into the link between envy and contemporary evaluation systems: Envy is not only a consequence of those systems, but also may be partly at the root of their development.

Keywords: envy; schadenfreude; workplace envy; evaluation; appraisal system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Richard H. Smith, Ugo Merlone, Michelle K. Duffy. Envy at work and in organizations, Oxford University Press, pp.191-209, 2016

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