Outcome #2 Development and effective Perf. Manag. System Flashcards

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performance Standards

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Job-related requirement
derived Job analysis
reflected in job descriptions and job specifications

Performance std./// all orders will be filled in 4 hours and 98 % accuracy//

Sdt is measurable/// compare employee is ok//

elements when establishing perf. std

  1. strategic relevance
  2. criterion deficiency
  3. criterion contamination
  4. reliability
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Strategic relevance

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extend perf. std. /// strategic objectives//

Provides documentation HR needs to justify// close gaps actual with needed skills

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Criterion Deficiency

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criter. defic/
should capture the entire range of employees

Focus on a single criterion

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Criterion Contamination

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Factor outside that affect employee

some Wks work new machine that other don’t
Sales people///contaminated// territories differ potential

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Reliability/calibration

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Stability consistency of standard
Extent Wks. perform stable during the time.

Calibration.
A process whereby managers meet to discuss the performance of individual employees to ensure that their employee evaluations are in line with one another

Use the same stds

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Fairness and acceptability

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Wks. tend to have an opinion if the process was fair or not

Wks must be allowed an input into///good performance
an input too/// in how the system operates

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Legal issues

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Employers face a legal challenges when low or acceptable evaluation

Legal guidelines:
Perf. evaluation: job-related, job analysis, only areas job performance

wks get job standards

Supervisor should apply perf. Std

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Who should appraise employee perf.

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Manager / Supervisor evaluation
Self/evaluation
Subordinate evaluations
Peer evaluations
Team evaluation
Customer evaluation
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Manager / Supervisor evaluation

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traditional way

Rely on instruments rather than the manager opinion

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Self/evaluation

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  1. First wk evaluate himself// strenghts and weaknesses

2. Manager talk about it and discuss it

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Subordinate evaluations

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A performance evaluation of a superior
by an employee, which is more
appropriate for developmental than for
administrative purposes

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Peer evaluations

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A performance evaluation is done by one’s fellow employees, generally on forms compiled into a single profile for use in the evaluation meeting conducted by the employee’s manager

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Team evaluation

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A performance evaluation that
recognizes team accomplishment
rather than individual performance

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Customer evaluation

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A performance evaluation that
includes evaluation from both a firm’s
external and internal customers

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360 degree /evaluation

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A performance evaluation is done by
different people who interact with the employee, generally on forms compiled into a single profile for use in the evaluation meeting conducted by
the employee’s manager

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Training appraisals

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Establishing an evaluation plan
Eliminating rating errors
Feedback training

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Establishing an evaluation plan

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Systematic process:
Purpose
mechanics ( frequency, std of perf.)

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Eliminating rating errors

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Halo error // have all description
Horn error // a single bad rating rate the overall
Distributional errors /// Single rating is skewed a whole rating

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The error of central tendency

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A performance rating error in which all

employees are rated about average

20
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leniency or strictness error

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A performance rating error in which
the appraiser tends to give employees
either unusually high or unusually low
ratings

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forced distribution

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A performance ranking system
whereby raters are required to place a

a certain PERCENTAGE of employees into
various performance categories

EXAMPLE
it may be required that 10 percent of ratings be poor (or excellent)

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Temporary recency error

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A performance rating error in which the evaluation is based largely on the employee’s most recent behavior rather than on behavior throughout
the evaluation period

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Contrast error

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A performance rating error in which an employee’s evaluation is biased either upward or downward because of comparison with another employee
just previously evaluated

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Similar- to - me an error

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A performance rating error in which an appraiser inflates the evaluation of an employee because of a mutual personal connection