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    "pk": 26084,
    "title": "On the Tragedy of Personnel Evaluation",
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    "abstract": "In social-dilemma situations (public-good games) people may\npursue their local, egoistic interests and thereby lower the\nglobal, overall payoff of their group and, paradoxically, even\ntheir own resulting payoff. One may also speak of intra-\nindividual dilemmas, where people pursue local goals at the\nexpense of their overall utility. Our current experiments\ntransfer this idea to the context of personnel evaluation and\npersonnel selection. In our experiments, participants were put\nin the position of a Human Resources manager, who should\nfor instance select workers who optimize the overall payoff of\nthe company, rather than those who optimize only their\nspecific payoffs. The results of the experiments, however,\nsuggest that most, albeit not all, participants tended to focus\non directly comparing individuals without considering the\noverall contribution to a group. Thus employees with the best\noverall effects for a company or organization may be\nevaluated the most negatively. This possible ‘tragedy of\npersonnel evaluation’ may be linked to maladaptive incentive\nstructures (personnel evaluation), advancement of employees\n(personnel promotion) and job offers (personnel selection),\nand may have a substantial negative impact on the\neffectiveness of companies or organizations.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "intra-individual dilemmas; social dilemmas;\npersonnel evaluation; personnel selection"
        },
        {
            "word": "altruism; causal\ninduction; global vs. local optimization; less-is-more effect"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9267v4c3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Momme",
            "middle_name": "von",
            "last_name": "Sydow",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Munich , University of Heidelberg",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Niels",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Braus",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Heidelberg",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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