Exam 6: Gathering Performance Information

The mechanical approach to computing an overall performance score involves taking every aspect of performance into consideration and arriving at a defensible summary.

Rating behaviors are influenced by:

Provide suggestions of what can be done to improve the quality of self-appraisals.

The basic component that requires forms to contain definitions of the various knowledge,skills,and abilities to be assessed together with their observable behaviors is referred to as:

List five things rater training programs should cover.

Disagreement about an employee's performance as perceived by different sources is ____________ a problem.

The _______________ method of computing an overall score relies on the weights given to indicate the relative importance of each performance dimension measured to prevent personal bias from entering into the rating.

The feature that recommends that a form specify expectations about past and future performance is referred to as:

The meeting during which the employee's performance is discussed,including both the perspective of the supervisor and the employee,is called a ____________.

During the ______________ meeting,an employee's developmental needs and the resources and methods available to meet those needs are discussed.

What is meant to be accomplished in the self-appraisal meeting?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using supervisors as raters?

Using the job description and appraisal form used in the previous two questions,discuss who should rate the performance of this employee e.g. ,supervisor,peers,and/or customers? Discuss why you chose each rater and how conflicts between ratings will be resolved.

The following are tools for addressing the challenges of open-ended i.e. ,comments sections,EXCEPT:

Describe the mechanical strategy for obtaining an overall performance score.

An employee's _______________ is/are usually best-equipped to rate how well the employee removes organizational barriers,shields employees from politics,and improves other employee's competence.

Ratings gathered from different sources in the organization will mostly be similar given that they are all rating the same employee.

Describe the judgmental strategy for obtaining an overall performance score.

The motivation to distort ratings is determined by …

The __________ meeting is a time to discuss how the system works and where the responsibility of the employee and the supervisor are outlined.