“Want-it-all” Mentality with Process and Outcome: Research Performance Evaluation Based on Empathic Supervision and Empathic Governance

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10.2991/978-94-6463-546-1_48How to use a DOI?

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scientific research personnel; research performance evaluation; empathy theory; supervision; governance

Abstract

As managers continue to think about how to stimulate innovative motivation among scientific research personnel, the effort to balance between process and outcomes of evaluation could become a new scientific perspective. Previous studies have focused on either supervision or governance, failing to take into account the “want-it-all” mentality among scientific research personnel. Therefore, this study took the perspective of empathy theory, to analyze the concern of research and development personnel for both supervision and governance, and to discover the pattern exists between cognition and emotion. Based on the above, this study focused on the case of employees’ performance evaluation in Chinese universities, which is undergoing reforms, and analyzed 3224 items of feedback on policy implementation in a quasi-natural experiment context, combining the two research methods of Netnography, which is used to discover the structures and features in the text of the feedback, and field interview, which is used to dig deeper to find out the connotations and patterns behind the structures and features. It has been found that the positive state of the new reform in the Chinese case is concerned with the supervision measures of score feedback, policy implementation, and behavioral prohibition; while the negative state is about management and people’s livelihoods, which presents an embedding logic of rules and environments. Therefore, this study proposed a corresponding model, and offered relevant insights and measures.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kui Yi
AU  - Xingrong Wang
AU  - Xinyu Wang
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/10/27
TI  - “Want-it-all” Mentality with Process and Outcome: Research Performance Evaluation Based on Empathic Supervision and Empathic Governance
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Finance, Trade and Business Management (FTBM 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 424
EP  - 435
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-546-1_48
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-546-1_48
ID  - Yi2024
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