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EXAM 2 Performance Management Flashcards

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Performance management

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Continuous process of identifying, measuring, evaluating, communicating, developing, & rewarding performance by linking individual performance to org’s mission and goals

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Benefits of performance management

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Higher performance, insights, forces communication, avoids lawsuits

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Performance appraisal

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Measuring & evaluating

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Performance management process

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Prereqs (missions, job analysis, support) -> performance planning -> performance execution -> performance assessment -> performance review

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Performance Planning

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Plan what the employee will be working on

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Performance Execution

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Supervisor evaluating + giving feedback

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Performance Assessment

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Manager + employee individually rate employee

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Performance Review

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Get together + discuss, evaluate, past performance + future

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Purposes of performance management

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  • Administrative
  • Developmental

Should do both, most do administrative

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Administrative

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Evaluation (good or bad)
Decision making (personnel decisions)
Recognizes past performance
Numerical (based on #s)

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Developmental

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Motivation (to improve, identify strengths + weakness)
Engagement
Narrative (descriptive)

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360 degree feedback

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All sources (supervisor, coworker, self, subordinate, customer)

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Supervisor evaluation

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MOST RELIABLE

  • Bias
  • Don’t see on regular basis
  • Sees outcomes
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Coworkers evaluation

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2ND MOST POSITIVELY BIASED
Developmental

  • Lots of bias (usually pos.)
  • Neg. bias when admin
  • See day-to-day
  • See comm. skills
  • No training on how to give feedback
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Self evaluation

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MOST POSITIVELY BIASED
Developmental

  • Encourages self-reflection
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Subordinate (lower in rank)

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  • Best position to evaluate managing skills
  • Bias -> retribution
  • Don’t always see everything
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Customer evaluation

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NEGATIVELY BIASED

  • Rarely see you
  • Good to evaluate customer service skills
  • More likely to give feedback when seeing bad
  • Low response rate
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Rating errors

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Distributional
- Leniency
- Severity
- Central tendency
Halo/Horn
Similarity
Recency
Contrast

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Distributional rating error

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Only use part of rating scale

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Leniency

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Only use top part of scale (higher than deserved)

People with high agreeableness

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Severity

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Only use bottom part of scale (hard ratings)

People with high conscientiousness

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Central tendency

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Only use middle part of scale (everyone is avg.)

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Halo/Horn

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Because of only ONE thing, assume the rest bad or good

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Similarity

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More similar = better rated

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Recency

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Focus on most recent action, not the entire picture

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Contrast

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Comparing to people instead of standard

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To avoid rating errors

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  • Multiple reviews
  • Spread them out
  • Train evaluators
  • Standards
  • Evaluate evaluators
  • Documentation
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Methods of rating performance

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Narrative/Qualitative (Written description)

Results oriented (Focus on outcomes, what was achieved, don’t care how achieved, objective)

Behavior oriented (Focus on methods to get results, subjective)

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Narrative/Qualitative

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Developmental

Essay (no feedback, no examples, dependent on person writing, can’t really compare)

Critical Incidents (writing down throughout, time consuming, only extreme examples written)

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Results oriented: Management by Objectives (MBO)

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Administrative, most common, objective

Joint goal setting, realistic, specific measurable, time-bound

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Which evaluator has the most bias?

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Behavior Oriented methods

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Relative (compare to coworkers)
Absolute (compare to pre-determined standard)

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Relative

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Alternation ranking (admin, best to worst, start @ edges)
Paired comparison (one @ a time)
Forced distribution (certain # per category)

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Absolute

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Behavior checklists (list all behaviors, check ones done, BINARY)
Graphic rating scale (MOST COMMON, continuum, recognize diff. levels)
BARS (combo of graphic rating scale & critical incident, includes definition)

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Giving feedback

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  • Reduces uncertainty
  • Higher perf.
  • Rewarding + motivating
  • Shows you care
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Why managers don’t give feedback

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  • Afraid of reaction
  • No training
  • Don’t see all
  • Too busy
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Characteristics of good feedback

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  • Both pos. & neg.
  • Objective (evidence)
  • What next?
  • Timely manner
  • Cover everyone
  • Tailer to individual
  • Be ready for reaction
  • Focus on behavior NOT individual
  • Look for patterns (not on time)
  • Discuss impact
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Creating legal PM systems

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  • Use job analysis
  • Standardize
  • Rate on multiple dimensions
  • Document perf.
  • Review w/ employees
  • Train & hold raters accountable
  • Use multiple raters

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