Demotivating Effects of Relative Performance Feedback on Middle-Ranked Workers’ Performance

Relative performance feedback: what is it and how does it affect employee performance? During this Expert Take, Aykut Turkoglu, Lecturer of Operations and Technology Management, and Anita Carson, Larz Anderson Professor and Professor of Operations and Technology Management, share their findings from a series of experiments analyzing how relative performance feedback can demotivate middle-ranked workers.