%0 Book %1 citeulike:4085367 %A Frey, Bruno S. %B Working Paper Series %C Zürich %D 2006 %K economic, evaluation, evaluationen, frey-09-02-23 %N 293 %T Evaluitis - eine neue Krankheit: Universität Zürich und CREMA- Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (9 Mai 2006): WZB-Konferenz, 1. – 3. Juni 2006 %U http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp293.pdf %X “Evaluitis” - i.e. ex post assessments of organizations and persons - has become a rapidly spreading disease. In addition to the well-known costs imposed on evaluees and evaluators, additional significant costs are commonly disregarded: incentives are distorted, ossification is induced and the decision approach is wrongly conceived. As a result, evaluations are used too often and too intensively. A viable and often superior alternative to evaluations is a careful selection of persons and afterwards leaving them to pursue their assigned tasks.

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