Dr. Patrick Kampkötter from the Seminar of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management by Prof. Dr. Dirk Sliwka receives for the best submitted article (title: “Performance Appraisals and Job Satisfaction”) the Best Conference Paper Award 2015 awarded by the German Academic Association for Business Research.

The study examines how formal performance evaluations by superiors affect the job satisfaction of their employees. The empirical analysis is based on a representative data set of approximately 10,500 employees of the Socio-Economic Panel for three years. Employees were asked whether their formal performance evaluation is combined with monetary or career-related consequences, such as bonuses, promotions and salary increase or neither of these consequences result. Using fixed effects panel regressions the causal effects of performance evaluations on job satisfaction can be estimated more accurately this study than in previous empirical studies based mainly on cross-sectional data.

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