Subjective Performance Appraisal and Inequality Aversion

Christian Grund (1) , Judith Przemeck (2)

1 Department of Business and Economics
2 Department of Economics

Making use of a subjective performance appraisal system, it is a well established fact that many supervisors tend to assess the employees too good (leniency bias) and that the appraisals hardly vary across employees of a certain supervisor (centrality bias). We explain these two biases in a simple theoretical model and discuss determinants of the size of the biases.

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Domaines: Économie et finance quantitative [q-fin]

Christian Grund, Judith Przemeck. Subjective Performance Appraisal and Inequality Aversion. Applied Economics, 2011, pp.1. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2011.560109⟩. ⟨hal-00687808⟩