TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Janvry,Alain
AU  - He,Guojun
AU  - Sadoulet,Elisabeth
AU  - Wang,Shaoda
AU  - Zhang,Qiong
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Subjective Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - Bureaucracy • Administrative Processes in Public Organizations • Corruption
KW  - jelc
KW  - Personnel Management • Executives; Executive Compensation
N1  - November 2022; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However, delegating evaluation power to local leadership could induce influence activities: employees might devote too much effort to impressing/pleasing their evaluator, relative to working toward the goals of the organization itself. We conduct a large-scale randomized field experiment among Chinese local civil servants to study the existence and implications of influence activities. We find that civil servants do engage in evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, partly in the form of reallocating work efforts toward job tasks that are more important and observable to the evaluator. Importantly, we show that introducing uncertainty about the evaluator's identity discourages evaluator-specific influence activities and improves bureaucratic work performance
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w30621
UR  - http://dx.doi.org//10.3386/w30621
ER  -