Abstract:Organizations have often used data and instituted accountability practices to improve performance by optimizing individual and organizational behavior. While research has focused on the impact of quantification on behavior, the increasingly important aspects of wellbeing and motivation are often ignored. However, the dynamics and politics of quantification can have important consequences to internal personal processes, over and beyond external observable actions. Using the case of US education that has long re… Show more
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