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“In eight of the nine tasks we examined across the three experiments, higher incentives led to worse performance. In fact, we were surprised by the robustness of the effect;”
Dan Ariely, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, and Nina Mazar (2005) “Large Stakes and Big Mistakes” Working Papers No. 5-011, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
See also:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/19/bonuses-decrease-performance-leadership-compensation_dan_ariely.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
_Punished By Rewards_, Alfie Kohn, 1999
_Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead_, Coens/Jenkins (2000)
_Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management_ (Pfeffer/Sutton) (Chapter 5 addresses performance appraisals.)
Adobe's alternative to performance appraisals: http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534355695
I don’t know anyone who’s lost their jobs for refusing to participate in performance appraisals. I’ve refused to participate in them several years in a row, and still seemed to get the same raises everyone else got.
—mj
> On May 22, 2015, at 4:44 AM, [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Michael,
>
>
> Here are links to links to some WSJ articles on the subject:
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> 1) Get Rid of Performance Reviews: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122426318874844933
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> 2) Yes, Everyone really does really hate performance reviews: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB127093422486175363
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> 3) Performance reviews lose steam: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204319004577088810100916828
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> 4) A Psychology Today article on "Why Performance Reveiws don't Improve Performance:" http://bit.ly/1IOWqkA
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> 5) Samuel Culbert - the UCLA Anderson School of Management Profession - turned his original WSJ article above into a book with the same title. Here is the link to the website of the book: www.performancepreview.com
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> Hope the above articles are sufficiently authoritative to help you with your objective.
>
> It will be great if you could report back here here on how it all played out.
>
> Good Luck in your quest !!!
>
> With Best Regards
>
> Shyam Kumar
>
>
>
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