2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
主観的評価理論の企業内部人事データに基づく実証分析
| Project/Area Number |
16K03717
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima Shudo University |
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Principal Investigator |
高橋 新吾 広島修道大学, 経済科学部, 助教 (70445899)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | Subjective evaluation / Multitasking incentives / Informativeness / Evaluation bias / job separation |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I investigate the claim that subjective performance evaluation is used to mitigate multitasking agency problems. Using the personnel records of sales representatives in a large car sales company, this study shows that the sensitivity of subjective evaluations to the objectively measured sales performance declines with the marginal productivity of hard-to-measure tasks, validating that subjective evaluations are indeed used to provide balanced multitasking incentives. I then investigate the informativeness of subjective evaluation about future sales performance. If subjective evaluation contains information above and beyond the observable performance measures, then subjective evaluation should predict future sales performance after controlling for all the observable characteristics. As such, I find such results. I then investigate whether the negative evaluation gap-an evaluation lower than what is predicted by observables-is also informative about the workers’ hard-to-measure performances. The motivation behind this investigation is the fact that workers tend to quit the company after receiving a negative evaluation gap. I however found that the quits subsequent to negative evaluation gaps are not significantly negatively correlated with sales-group level sales performance. Thus I fail to find evidence that the negative evaluation gap is a result of evaluation bias.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I have submitted the output of this project `Multitasking incentives and informativeness of the subjective performance evaluation’ to a refereed journal, and have received a positive response that asked me to revise the manuscript. I am confident that I can properly respond to all the revision requests made by the editor and the referees.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
As I mentioned above, the manuscript from this project is favorably reviewed at a refereed journal, and I am asked to revise the manuscript. I will focus on responding to all the revision requests properly, and to resubmit the paper.
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| Causes of Carryover |
携帯用のプロジェクターやプリンターなどの物品の購入を先延ばしにすることにしたため、若干の余りが生じた。本年度は、それらの物品の購入を行う。
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