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Performance Appraisal

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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refers to the regular review of an employee’s job performance and overall contribution to a company

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Peter Principle

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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idea that individuals will continue to be promoted until they reach a position where they are no longer effective.

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360-Degree Feedback

Feedback

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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Sources of relevant information about employee performance include supervisors, peers, subordinates, customers, and self-appraisal

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Multiple-source feedback

Feedback

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employee receives feedback from sources (e.g., clients, subordinates, peers) other than just his or her supervisor.

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Supervisors

Feedback

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most common performance appraisal

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Peers

Feedback

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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come from employees who work directly with an employee

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Subordinate

Feedback

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  • also called upward feedback
  • subordinates can provide a very different view about a supervisor’s behavior
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Customers

Feedback

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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  • feedback on employee performance by filing complaints or complimenting a manager
  • Organizations also seek customer feedback in the form of secret shoppers
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Self-appraisal

Feedback

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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Allowing an employee to evaluate her own behavior

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Trait-Focused

Appraisal Methods

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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concentrates on such employee attributes as dependability, honesty, and courtesy.

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Competency-Focused

Appraisal Methods

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employee’s knowledge, skills, and abilities

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Task-Focused

Appraisal Methods

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organized by the similarity of tasks that are performed

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Goal-focused

Appraisal Methods

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organizaing appraisal on the basis of goals to be accomplished by the employee

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Contextual Performance

Appraisal Methods

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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the effort an employee makes to get along with peers

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Employee Comparison

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**employees can be compared with one another **instead of being rated individually on a scale

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Rank order

ratings

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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employees are ranked from best to worst

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Paired Comparison

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group of employees to be ranked are compared one pair at a time.

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Forced Distribution

ratings

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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  • (Rank and Yank)
  • a predetermined percentage of employees are placed into a number of performance categories
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Objective Measures (Hard Measures)

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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referred to as a “hard measure,” is a quantifiable and tangible metric used to assess performance, progress, or success. These measures are concrete and typically involve numerical data

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Ratings of a Performance

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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  • Graphic rating scale
  • Behavioral Checklist
  • Contamination
21
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Graphic rating scale

Ratings of a Performance

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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involves rating employee performance on an interval or ratio scale

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Behavioral Checklist

Ratings of a Performance

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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condition in which a criterion score is affected by things other than those under the control of the employee

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Management by Objective (MBO)

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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designed to **include employees in the goal-setting process and define “success” by measuring accomplishments **against a clearly established set of objectives

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Frame-of-reference training

Train Raters

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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the rater is provided with job-related information, a chance to practice ratings, examples of ratings made by experts, and the rationale behind the expert ratings

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Critical incidents

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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supervisor records employee behaviors that were observed on the job and rates the employee on the basis of that record

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Employee Performance Record

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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A standardized use of the critical-incident technique developed at General Motors. Half of the sheet is used to record examples of good behaviors, and the other half to record examples of poor behaviors

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Distribution Errors

rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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Rating errors in which a rater will use only a certain part of a rating scale when evaluating employee performance

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Leniency Errors

rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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a rater consistently gives all employee high ratings, regardless of their actual levels of performance

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Central tendency error

rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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a rater consistently rates all employees in the middle of the scale, regardless of their actual levels of performance

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Strictness Errors

rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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a rater consistently gives all employees low ratings, regardless of their actual levels of performance.

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Halo Errors

Rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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a rater **allows either a single attribute or an overall impression of an individual to affect the ratings **that she makes on each relevant job dimension

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Proximity Errors

Rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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occur when a rating made on one dimension affects the rating made on the dimension that immediately follows it on the rating scale

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Contrast Errors

Rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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The performance rating one person receives can be influenced by the performance of a previously evaluated person

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Assimilation Error

Rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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raters base their rating of an employee during one rating period on the ratings the rater gave during a previous period

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Emotional State

Rating error

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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Stress, bias, affect

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Employment-at-Will Doctrine

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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employers have the right to hire and fire an employee at will and without any specific cause.

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Employment-at-will statements

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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Statements in employment applications and company manuals reaffirming an organization’s right to hire and fire at will

38
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Legal Reasons for Terminating Employees

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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  • Probationary Period
  • Violation of Company Rules
  • Inability to Perform
  • Reduction in Force (Layoff)
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Elements for Effective Performance Appraisal Feedback:

Lesson 11: Evaluating Employee Perf

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  • specificity
  • timeliness
  • manner
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