HRM Employee Evaluation

Business strategy, performance management, and compensation systems should be effectively linked.

• True

• False

Accurate performance appraisals can indicate to employees where they are deficient in their work.

• True

• False

The recency error is NOT a performance evaluation bias that occurs in employee performance appraisals.

• True

• False

Performance appraisals are used for compensation adjustments, training needs, and placement decisions.

• True

• False

Managers who tend to rate everyone as 'average.'

This is referred to as the .....

• recency error

• central tendency error

• halo effect

• similar-to-me error

The most used form of performance appraisal that requires a rater to provide a subjective evaluation.

• rating scale

• weighted checklist

• self-assessment scale

• critical incident method

When a manager generalizes one positive performance feature or incident to all aspects of employee performance.

• leniency error

• strictness error

• halo effect

• recency error

To which of the following HR practices is performance appraisal least related?

• internal employee relations

• training and development

• compensation

• recruitment

Which of the following is NOT a standard used in effective performance appraisal systems?

• competencies

• years of service

• behavior

• traits

What appraisal method appeals to managers who want employees to participate in their own evaluation and development?

• self-appraisal

• superior appraisal

• subordinate appraisal

• peer appraisal