PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Flashcards

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Procedures and systems designed to improve employee outputs and performance, often through the use of economic incentive systems.

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Performance Management

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The process of systematic evaluation of an employee’s overall work performance.

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Performance Evaluation

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Involves his work outputs and how well he/she handles his duties and responsibilities.

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Performance Evaluation

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Functions of Performance Evaluation

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●Validation and Selection Criteria 
●Training Requirements 
●Employee Improvement
●Promotions, Wages, and Transfers 
●Reductions in Force
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Categories of Performance Measure

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●Performance Appraisal for Production Job

●Performance Appraisal for Non-production Jobs

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Jobs that have an output

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Production Job

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office work, doctors

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Non-production Jobs

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number of units assembled or produced in a given period of time.

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Quantity of Output

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assessed through inspection standards to check on faulty units produced.

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Quality of Output

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based on accident records within the work environment.

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Accidents

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wage history, rates and frequency of increase

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Salary

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number of days lost from work.

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Absenteeism

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history and record of promotion

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Rare of Advancement

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Performance Appraisal for Production Job

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●Quantity of Output
●Quality of Output
●Accidents
●Salary
●Absenteeism 
●Rare of Advancement
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Performance Appraisal for Non-production Jobs

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●Assessment of Supervisors
●Assessment of Peers
●Self-Assessment.

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assessing levels of proficiency base on supervisory assessment.

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Assessment of Supervisors

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assessing judgments and performance level by co-workers.

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Assessment of Peers

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Appraisal of one’s own performance.

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Self-Assessment

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Methods of Performance Appraisal

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●Rating Technique
●Forced-Distribution ●Techniques
●Essay Appraisal
●Checklist
●Forced Choice
●Critical Incident
●Graphic Rating Scale
●Management by Objectives
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Sources of Error in Performance Appraisal

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●Halo Effect
●Distribution errors
●Recency error
●Personal bias error

21
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a tendency to judge a person’s performance based on single attribute or characteristic

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Halo Effect

22
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leniency, central tendency and strictness error

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Distribution errors

23
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the rater’s tendency to allow more recent incidents of employee behavior to carry too much weight in evaluation of performance over an entire rating period.

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Recency error

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an error in judgment that can occur when a person allows their preformed biases to affect the evaluation of another.

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Personal bias error