Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China

主讲人

何国俊

简介

<p>Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However,&nbsp;delegating evaluation power to senior leadership could induce influence activities: agents might devote much efforts&nbsp;to please their supervisors, rather than focusing on productive tasks that benefit their organizations. We conduct a&nbsp;large-scale randomized field experiment among Chinese local government employees and provide the first rigorous&nbsp;empirical evidence on the existence and implications of influence activities. We find that state employees are able&nbsp;to impose evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, and that this process could be partly observed&nbsp;by their co-workers. Furthermore, introducing uncertainty in the identity of the evaluator, which discourages&nbsp;evaluator-specific influence activities, can significantly improve the work performance of state employees.</p>

时间

2019-09-26(Thursday)16:40-18:00

地点

N302, Econ Building

讲座语言

English

主办单位

承办单位

类型

系列讲座

联系人信息

主持人

Jiayi Wen

专题网站

专题

主讲人简介

<p>Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<br /> https://www.guojunhe.com/cv.html</p>

期数

高级经济学系列讲座19年秋季第一讲(总425讲)

主讲人: 何国俊
主讲人简介:

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
https://www.guojunhe.com/cv.html

主持人: Jiayi Wen
简介:
系列讲座
时间: 2019-09-26(Thursday)16:40-18:00
地点: N302, Econ Building
期数: 高级经济学系列讲座19年秋季第一讲(总425讲)
类型: 系列讲座