From Text to Insight: Leveraging Large Language Models for Performance Evaluation in Management

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Autores principales: Li, Ning, Zhou, Huaikang, Xu, Mingze
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author Li, Ning
Zhou, Huaikang
Xu, Mingze
author_facet Li, Ning
Zhou, Huaikang
Xu, Mingze
contents This study explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, to enhance objectivity in organizational task performance evaluations. Through comparative analyses across two studies, including various task performance outputs, we demonstrate that LLMs can serve as a reliable and even superior alternative to human raters in evaluating knowledge-based performance outputs, which are a key contribution of knowledge workers. Our results suggest that GPT ratings are comparable to human ratings but exhibit higher consistency and reliability. Additionally, combined multiple GPT ratings on the same performance output show strong correlations with aggregated human performance ratings, akin to the consensus principle observed in performance evaluation literature. However, we also find that LLMs are prone to contextual biases, such as the halo effect, mirroring human evaluative biases. Our research suggests that while LLMs are capable of extracting meaningful constructs from text-based data, their scope is currently limited to specific forms of performance evaluation. By highlighting both the potential and limitations of LLMs, our study contributes to the discourse on AI role in management studies and sets a foundation for future research to refine AI theoretical and practical applications in management.
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spellingShingle From Text to Insight: Leveraging Large Language Models for Performance Evaluation in Management
Li, Ning
Zhou, Huaikang
Xu, Mingze
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Emerging Technologies
Human-Computer Interaction
General Economics
Economics
This study explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, to enhance objectivity in organizational task performance evaluations. Through comparative analyses across two studies, including various task performance outputs, we demonstrate that LLMs can serve as a reliable and even superior alternative to human raters in evaluating knowledge-based performance outputs, which are a key contribution of knowledge workers. Our results suggest that GPT ratings are comparable to human ratings but exhibit higher consistency and reliability. Additionally, combined multiple GPT ratings on the same performance output show strong correlations with aggregated human performance ratings, akin to the consensus principle observed in performance evaluation literature. However, we also find that LLMs are prone to contextual biases, such as the halo effect, mirroring human evaluative biases. Our research suggests that while LLMs are capable of extracting meaningful constructs from text-based data, their scope is currently limited to specific forms of performance evaluation. By highlighting both the potential and limitations of LLMs, our study contributes to the discourse on AI role in management studies and sets a foundation for future research to refine AI theoretical and practical applications in management.
title From Text to Insight: Leveraging Large Language Models for Performance Evaluation in Management
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Emerging Technologies
Human-Computer Interaction
General Economics
Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05328