Chapter 7: Evaluating Employee Performance (Reversed)
Performance Appraisal is the formal assessment of an employee’s job performance to evaluate their effectiveness and productivity. It also helps identify areas for improvement and supports decisions related to promotions, training, and career development.
the systematic evaluation of the performance of employees and to understand the abilities of a person for further growth and development.
Performance Appraisal
Key Terms
the systematic evaluation of the performance of employees and to understand the abilities of a person for further growth and development.
Performance Appraisal
first step of the performance appraisal process
first step of the performance appraisal process
the most common uses and goals for conducting performance appraisal
Determining salary increases
providing employee training and feedback
Making promotion
making termination decision
Conducti...
second step of the performance appraisal process that involves identifying the limitation and the effect of the performance appraisal method process
Identifying the environmental and cultural limitations
second step of the performance appraisal process that involves identifying the limitation and the effect of the performance appraisal method process
Identifying the environmental and cultural limitations
the third step of the performance appraisal process
determine who will evaluate
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
the systematic evaluation of the performance of employees and to understand the abilities of a person for further growth and development. | Performance Appraisal |
first step of the performance appraisal process | first step of the performance appraisal process |
the most common uses and goals for conducting performance appraisal | Determining salary increases providing employee training and feedback Making promotion making termination decision Conducting personnel research |
second step of the performance appraisal process that involves identifying the limitation and the effect of the performance appraisal method process | Identifying the environmental and cultural limitations |
second step of the performance appraisal process that involves identifying the limitation and the effect of the performance appraisal method process | Identifying the environmental and cultural limitations |
the third step of the performance appraisal process | determine who will evaluate |
a performance appraisal system in which feedback is obtained from multiple sources such as supervisor, coworkers, peers, customers, and subordinates. | 360-degree feedback or multiple source feedback |
360-degree feedback or multiple source feedback | training and employee development |
the fourth step of performance appraisal review process | selecting the best appraisal methods to accomplish your goals |
ways of describing employee success | criteria |
two important decisions to be made prior to developing the actual performance appraisal instrument | Decision 1: The Focus of Appraisal Decision Decision 2. Should Dimensions be weighed Decision 3: Use of Employee Comparison, Objective Measures, or Ratings |
four types of performance dimension | Trait focus, competency focus skill focus goal focus |
a type of performance dimension that concentrates on employee attributes | Trait-focus performance dimension |
a type of performance dimension that concentrates on employee’s knowledge, skill, and abilities | competency-focused performance dimension |
a type of performance dimension that organize the similarity of tasks that are performed and is often the easier to evaluate performance than the other dimensions but is more difficult to offer suggestion for how to correct deficiency if an employee scored low on a dimension | task-focused performance appraisal |
a type of performance dimension that organize the appraisal on the basis of goals to be accomplished by the employee | goal-focused performance appraisal |
the effort an employee makes to get along with peers, improve the organization, and and to engage in tasks that are not necessarily an official part of the employee’s job description | contextual performance |
why should dimensions be weighted? | because some dimensions are more important to an organization than others and it may reduce racial and other biases |
ways to evaluate performance | employee comparison ratings of performance objective measures |
methods of performance evaluation by employee comparison | rank order 2. forced distribution |
a method of performance appraisal in which employees are ranked from best to worst | rank order |
a form of ranking in which group of employees to be ranked are compared one pair at a time | paired comparison |
a performance appraisal method in which a predetermined percentage of employees are placed into a number of categorical performance | forced distribution method |
a way of performance evaluation that use a hard or objective criteria | objective measures |
common types of objective measures | quantity of work quality of work attendance safety (occupational accidents) |
a type of objective criterion used to measure job performance by counting the number of relevant job behaviors that occur | quantity |
a type of objective criterion used to measure job performance by comparing a job behavior with a standard | quality |
a type of objective criterion used to measure job performance which is usually measured in terms of errors | a type of objective criterion used to measure job performance which is usually measured in terms of errors |
deviation from a standard | error |
a type of response to communication overload that involves processing all information but processing some of it incorrectly | error |
a way of performance evaluation in which supervisors rate how ell the employee performed on each dimension | ratings of performance |
a method of performance appraisal that involves rating employee performance on an interval or ratio scale | graphic rating scale |
a method of performance appraisal that use a checklist of a list of relevant behaviors, expectations, and results for each dimension | behavioral checklist |
a method of performance appraisal that use a checklist of behavioral performance statements and the level at which the behavior is expected to be performed | behavioral checklist |
two forms of writing behavior statements | behavior- based statements | result-focused statements |
the condition in which a criterion score is affected by things other than those under the control of an employee | contamination |
a method of training raters in which the rater is provided with job-related information, a chance to practice ratings, examples of ratings made by experts, and the rationale behind the expert ratings | frame of reference training |
a method of performance appraisal in which the supervisor records employee behaviors that were observed on the job, and rates the employee on the basis of that record | critical incident method |
formal accounts of excellent and poor employee performance that were observed by the supervisor | critical incident log |
rating errors in which a supervisor will use only a certain part of a rating scale when evaluating employee performance | distribution errors |
a type of rating error in which a rater consistently gives all employees high ratings, regardless of their actual performance | leniency errors |
a type of rating error in which a rater consistently rates all employees in the middle of the scale, regardless of their actual performance | central tendency error |
a type of rating error in which a rater consistently gives all employees low ratings, regardless of their actual performance | strictness error |
a type of rating error that occurs when a rater allows either a single attribute or an overall impression of an individual to affect the ratings that she makes on each relevant job dimension | halo errors |
a type of rating error that occurs when a rating made on one dimension affects the rating on the dimension that immediately follows it on the rating scale | proximity errors |
providing employees increasing severity of punishments as needed, in order to change behavior | progressive discipline |
Legal reasons for terminating employees | probationary period violation of company rules inability to perform reduction in force or layoff |