{"id":3778,"date":"2022-11-10T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/working_papers\/subjective-performance-evaluation-influence-activities-and-bureaucratic-work-behavior-evidence-from-china\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:15:39","slug":"subjective-performance-evaluation-influence-activities-and-bureaucratic-work-behavior-evidence-from-china","status":"publish","type":"working_papers","link":"http:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/zh-hans\/working_papers\/subjective-performance-evaluation-influence-activities-and-bureaucratic-work-behavior-evidence-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Subjective Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"textblock textblock--main\">\n<p class=\"p1\">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. 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