Strategic Shirking in Promotion Tournaments
研究了多任务晋升锦标赛中，员工通过在某些任务上表现不佳来增加晋升机会的策略性行为，并解释了为何能力强的员工有时会被能力弱的员工超越。
We provide a theoretical analysis of multitask promotion tournaments in which workers increase their promotion chances by under-performing (over-performing) on tasks that are de-emphasized (emphasized) in a promotion rule. In some settings the firm can mitigate such “strategic shirking” by committing to a promotion rule that requires more balance in the performances across job tasks than would be justified on productivity grounds. The model can explain “Putt’s Law”, which states that competent workers are sometimes passed over for promotion in favor of incompetent ones..