The goal of this paper is to identify factors which affect judges’ productivity and career choice motives with the view of increasing judicial efficiency. Specifically, the investigation focuses on such aspects as judges’ remuneration, promotion, threat of judgment revocation, service/mission, periodic assessment, the threat of a complaint about protracted proceedings or of disciplinary proceedings, the threat of destabilization of the employment relationship, status/prestige of the profession, power/authority, social recognition, leisure, as well as administrative supervision and self-monitoring. To this end, a survey was conducted among judges of three of the largest Polish regional courts and subordinate district courts. The descriptive and statistical analyses show that judges’ care for the number of cases resolved, proxying for their productivity, is significantly correlated with self-monitoring of their adjudication activity. The stability of employment, the status/prestige of the profession and a relatively high remuneration are the most important factors in terms of judges’ career choices. In their care for the number of cases resolved remuneration is, albeit, no longer a relevant factor. Judges monitor their productivity due to reasons other than remuneration, possibly the sense of service/mission and the threat of various adverse consequences, the evidence for which is, however, also rather weak.

本文的目的是从提高司法效率的角度确定影响法官生产率和职业选择动机的因素。具体而言，调查主要集中在以下方面：法官的薪酬，晋升，撤销判决的威胁，服务/任务，定期评估，对长期诉讼或纪律处分的投诉的威胁，雇佣关系不稳定的威胁，地位的威胁。 /职业声望，权力/权威，社会认可，休闲以及行政监督和自我监督。为此，对波兰最大的三个地区法院和下级地方法院的法官进行了调查。描述性和统计分析表明，法官对案件数量的关注，代表他们的生产力，与审判活动的自我监控密切相关。就法官的职业选择而言，就业的稳定性，职业的地位/声望和相对较高的薪酬是最重要的因素。在他们照顾案件数量的情况下，报酬已不再是一个相关因素。法官由于报酬以外的其他原因（可能是服务/使命感以及各种不利后果的威胁）来监控其生产力，然而，证据还很薄弱。在他们照顾案件数量的情况下，报酬已不再是一个相关因素。法官由于薪酬以外的其他原因（可能是服务/使命感以及各种不利后果的威胁）来监控其生产力，然而，证据还很薄弱。在他们照顾案件数量的情况下，报酬已不再是一个相关因素。法官由于薪酬以外的其他原因（可能是服务/使命感以及各种不利后果的威胁）来监控其生产力，然而，证据还很薄弱。