Performance Evaluation
Each team of four Employees will be matched with one participant in the role of Manager.
The participants randomly assigned to the role of Manager know the task that Employees will complete, and they will be complete a separate task. Managers will not have an opportunity to increase the total output of any Employee.
Managers are responsible for completing performance evaluations for each of the Employees on their assigned team{{ if player.condition == 3 or player.condition == 4 }} and allocating the team’s discretionary bonus pool{{ endif }}.
Specifically, each Manager will be instructed to rate the overall performance of each Employee on a scale of 1-100 (with 1 representing poor performance and 100 representing outstanding performance){{ if player.condition == 3 or player.condition == 4 }} and allocate a discretionary bonus pool of 400 points between the team’s four Employees in any proportion they choose{{ endif }}.
To assist in the performance evaluation{{ if player.condition == 3 or player.condition == 4 }} and bonus allocation {{ endif }} process{{ if player.condition == 3 or player.condition == 4 }}es{{ endif }}, Managers will be provided with the following information for the Employees on their assigned team:
| 1. | The total output for each Employee. As discussed earlier, this includes output generated by the Employee themselves, as well as any output generated for their benefit by other Employees. |
| 2. | How many points each Employee chose to use to increase the total output of any other Employee, but not which point type – A or B – these were or how much output was generated by these points. |
| 3. | How many points were used to increase the total output of each Employee, but not which point type – A or B – these were or how much output was generated by these points. |
Managers know each Employee can choose to use points to increase the total output of any other Employee on the team, but will not learn whether any Employee used points in this manner or whether any Employee’s output was increased by points used in this manner.
{{ endif }}Managers will receive performance information in summary form as follows:
| Employee | Employee total output | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}Number of points used to increase the total output of another Employee (or other Employees) | Number of points used by teammates to increase the total output of this Employee | {{ endif }}
| 1 | Output generated by the Employee’s use of their own points plus any output generated by points used to benefit the Employee by teammates. | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}# | # | {{ endif }}
| 2 | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}# | # | {{ endif }}|
| 3 | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}# | # | {{ endif }}|
| 4 | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}# | # | {{ endif }}
For example, the Manager of a team may receive the following information pertaining to their Employees (given hypothetical results):
| Employee | Employee total output | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}Number of points used to increase the total output of another Employee (or other Employees) | Number of points used by teammates to increase the total output of this Employee | {{ endif }}
| 1 | 136 | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}24 | 22 | {{ endif }}
| 2 | 136 | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}24 | 22 | {{ endif }}
| 3 | 158 | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}12 | 26 | {{ endif }}
| 4 | 125 | {{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}30 | 20 | {{ endif }}
Thus, while you will learn the composition of your total output (i.e., how many points were generated by you and how many points were generated by teammates who used points to increase your total output), the Manager will not learn this information.
{{ if player.condition == 2 or player.condition == 4 }}Additionally, while you and other Employees will learn the output generated by any points you use to increase any teammate’s total output, the Manager will only see the number of points used in this manner by each Employee and the number of points used in this manner for the benefit of each Employee’s total output.
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