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June 15, 2026Behavioral Research in Accounting

The Outcome Effect in Performance Evaluation: Decision Process Observability and Consensus.

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JFJoseph FisherTSThomas I. Selling

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Implication

Randomized trial examines how outcome knowledge and decision process observability affect performance appraisal, highlighting evaluator-evaluatee agreement implications.

Key Points

  • This study examines how outcome knowledge impacts performance appraisal and the role of decision process observability.
  • Examined the effects of outcome knowledge and decision processes on performance evaluation in a bankruptcy prediction task.
  • Analyzed interactions between evaluator-evaluatee-outcome agreement and outcome knowledge.
  • Evaluated how decision process observability influences performance evaluation outcomes.
  • Evaluator-evaluatee-outcome agreement interacts with outcome knowledge, impacting performance evaluation outcomes.
  • Observability of decision processes reduces the outcome effect on evaluations.

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Fisher et al. (1993) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2f9718a1cfeec4908283cdhttps://doi.org/10.2308/bria-3957605
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