With the widespread use of narrative feedback in companies, understanding how such feedback can be valuable for employee performance improvement is important. Drawing on proprietary data from an e-commerce company, we investigate the role of language …
Many firms have begun granting teams greater autonomy in determining how they organise and report on their work. This study examines how communication influences (dis)honest reporting within such autonomous teams. Through a series of three …
This study examines whether non-wage benefits can facilitate the sorting of employees into different remuneration arrangements within firms. Using data from the largest employer review platform in Germany, we derive four main insights. First, we …
This study examines a performance evaluation process that integrates multiple raters and calibration committees-practices increasingly adopted by organizations yet underexplored in academic research. Using proprietary data, we investigate how …
New digital technologies allow companies to provide employees with performance feedback in real time. We investigate the causal effects of such real-time feedback on individual effort and the quality of initial (prefeedback) and final (postfeedback) …
This study investigates the individual performance consequences of adopting unrewarded group relative performance information (RPI). Using proprietary data from a non-profit clinic, we exploit the staggered feature of the adoption of unrewarded group …
Prior research on voluntary disclosures has long debated whether managers tend to withhold bad news. However, these studies have been conducted in settings in which, ex-ante, the trade-off between the potential benefits and the potential costs of …