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The Elusive Effectiveness of Performance Measurement in Science: Insights from a German University

In: Incentives and Performance

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  • Christoph Biester

    (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH)

  • Tim Flink

    (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH)

Abstract

Over the last decades, procedures of compiling, measuring and evaluating academic performance have made incursions into the realm of universities. The result is an effect on employment negotiations, increased competitive performance measurement in funding allocation and, in the context of salary distribution, impact on how individual and collective achievements of academic staff are compared among each other or between different research institutions. Despite the pervasiveness of this type of systematic performance measurement impinging upon nearly all university activities, we still know little about whether these systems matter for researchers under evaluation. Based on empirical insights from an evaluation at a large German university, we discuss perceptions of professors exposed to one university performance measurement system. That exposure seems to trigger, in particular, worrisome attitudes of ambivalence towards the university and the academic value system.

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  • Christoph Biester & Tim Flink, 2015. "The Elusive Effectiveness of Performance Measurement in Science: Insights from a German University," Springer Books, in: Isabell M. Welpe & Jutta Wollersheim & Stefanie Ringelhan & Margit Osterloh (ed.), Incentives and Performance, edition 127, pages 397-412, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-09785-5_24
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09785-5_24
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    1. Tim Flink, 2022. "Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation [The Perverse Effects of Competition on Scientists’ Work and Relationships]," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 49(2), pages 191-200.

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