Exam 10: Evaluating Individuals

Identify and briefly explain the main categories of reasons for doing appraisals.

As a supervisor you are required to put 10 percent of your employees into the highest category and 10 percent into the lowest category.What type of performance appraisal method is your company using?

A common practice is for employees in the first and second quartiles of their pay range to receive no merit increase for simply doing satisfactory work.

Which of the following appraisal methods provides specific descriptors for each point on a rating scale?

This perceptual error occurs when one highly favourable or unfavourable employee characteristic influences the evaluation of other characteristics of that employee.

You have decided to set a maximum amount of money available for merit pay and then allocate it across your departments. Which of the following approaches have you used to determine the total amount of money available for merit pay?

The actual performance of the employee being evaluated has a greater impact on performance appraisal ratings than rater bias.

As a supervisor you have a tendency to rate all employees as "average" in everything. You are guilty of using what perceptual error?

Which of the following is not a source of performance appraisals?

This method of performance appraisal simplifies the ranking process by comparing each employee with every other employee,one at a time.

Which of the following is not a characteristics of effective goals?

Which source of appraisals works better for feedback purposes than as a basis for merit pay?

Which of the following is an administrative reason for conducting performance appraisals?

The majority of medium to large Canadian firms use performance appraisal.

Which source uses many different rating groups to evaluate the employee's performance?

Which of the following conditions is more likely to create the need to evaluate individuals in teams?

Which of the following methods has appraisers rate the frequency of occurrence of different employee behaviours?

Peer appraisals are more accurate than supervisory appraisals.

One hindrance to generating accurate performance appraisals is that raters often believe that it is more important to achieve their intended result than to produce accurate ratings.

Allowing your secretary's weak data processing skills to influence your rating of her other job-related skills is an example of which type of perceptual error?