Jim,an Operating Manager at a Financial Services Firm,is Conducting a Performance

Multiple Choice

Jim,an operating manager at a financial services firm,is conducting a performance appraisal of the employees in his department,ranking them from the most to the least valuable.He lists the names of the employees to be rated on the left side of a sheet of paper.Then he chooses the most valuable employee on the list,crosses that name off the left-hand list,and puts it at the top of the column on the right-hand side of the paper.Next,he selects and crosses off the name of the least valuable employee from the left-hand column and moves it to the bottom of the right-hand column.Jim repeats this process for all of the names on the left-hand side of the paper.The resulting list of names in the right-hand column gives a ranking of the employees from most to least valuable.Identify the ranking method Jim is using.

A) Paired comparison ranking
B) Forced distribution
C) Alternation ranking
D) Central tendency distribution