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Visible support of the performance management process by the CEO and senior management ensures that the system is consistently used across the company.
true
The initial steps of the performance management cycle involve an employee and a manager identifying what the employee can do to capitalize on performance strengths.
false
A performance management system should link employee activities with an organization's goals.
true
Validity is the consistency of a performance measure.
false
The extent to which a performance measure is deemed to be satisfactory or adequate by those who use it is known as its reliability.
false
Acceptability is affected by the extent to which employees believe the performance management system is fair.
true
Alternation ranking requires managers to rank employees within their departments from highest performer to poorest performer.
false
The comparative approach to performance management increases the problems of leniency, central tendency, and strictness.
false
Quality-based performance methods are quite easy to develop and are generalizable across a variety of jobs, strategies, and organizations.
false
Attribute-based performance methods are the least popular performance evaluation approaches in organizations.
false
A behaviorally anchored rating scale is designed to specifically define performance dimensions by developing behavioral anchors associated with different levels of performance.
true
An advantage of behaviorally anchored rating scales is an increased interrater reliability.
true
Competencies are sets of skills, knowledge, abilities, and personal characteristics that enable employees to successfully perform their jobs.
true
Result-based approaches to performance measurement assume that subjectivity can be eliminated from the measurement process.
true
Productivity measurement and evaluation system (ProMES) is designed to specifically define performance dimensions by developing behavioral anchors associated with different levels of performance.
false
One of the advantages of the results approach to performance measurement is that it disassociates an individual's results from the organization's strategies and goals.
false
The assumption of Pareto analysis is that the majority of problems are the result of a small number of causes.
true
The quality approach relies primarily on a combination of the attribute and results approaches to performance measurement.
true
Managers are the most frequently used source of performance information.
true
The best use of self-ratings is for administrative purposes.
false
The major advantage of the 360-degree appraisal technique is that it provides a means for minimizing bias in an otherwise subjective evaluation technique.
true
Older employees tend to have more confidence in the fairness of social performance management than younger employees do.
false
In appraisal politics, evaluators purposefully distort a rating to achieve personal or company goals.
true
Once the expected performance has been defined and employees' performances have been measured, it is necessary to feed that performance information back to the employees so that they can correct any deficiencies.
true
Output is a factor to be considered in analyzing poor performance.
false
_____ is the means through which managers ensure that employees' activities and outputs are congruent with the organization's goals.
performance management
The process through which an organization gets information on how closely an employee's actual performance meets his or her performance plan is known as _____.
performance appraisal
The performance effectiveness of employees is provided to them during the _____ process.
performance feedback
The process of performance management begins with
defining performance outcomes for company divisions and departments.
Rick is the vice president of the human resources team. He designs a new performance management process. He completes the first step and moves on to the next step of developing employee goals and actions to achieve the outcomes. Which of the following is he likely to do next to create an effective performance management process?
He will provide support and ongoing performance discussions.
Which of the following is an example of using performance management to fulfill an administrative purpose?
Use performance appraisal to make decisions such as pay raises, promotions, retention-termination, layoffs, and recognition of individual performance.
As the CEO of Blue Corp., Terrell makes it a point to meet new hires at all levels of his organization. He explains the goals of the company and emphasizes the importance of an individual employee's role in the larger picture. This initiative of Terrell focuses on the _____ of performance management.
strategic purpose
_____ is the extent to which the performance management system elicits job performance that is consistent with an organization's strategy, goals, and culture.
strategic congruence
Globo Analytics Inc., a data analysis company, has modified its performance management system. Apart from training employees on their specific tasks, the trainers and managers help the employees become more aware of the overall goals of the company and how their individual performances influence the broader goals of the company. As a result of this, employees' performances have become more consistent with the organization's strategies, goals, and culture. This initiative of Globo focuses on the _____ criterion of performance management.
strategic congruence
Prometheus Corp. is a large-scale manufacturer of consumer electronic gadgets. As part of its performance management system, Prometheus measures the amount each employee contributes to the profits of the company, and the employees are either held accountable or rewarded based on their contributions. With regard to performance measurement, under which of the following would contribution to profits be categorized?
Critical success factors (CSFs)
Which performance management evaluation criterion reflects the extent to which a performance measure assesses all the relevant—and only the relevant—aspects of performance?
validity
Whittaker Publishing Corp. is a publishing company that wants to hire more technical experts to handle the software requirements in the publishing process. However, the test given to the programmers assesses not only their technical knowledge but also their communication skills, language abilities, and understanding of client services. The test conducted by Whittaker Publishing Corp. is _____.
low on validity
A performance measure is said to be contaminated when
it evaluates irrelevant aspects of performance.
A software company assesses its developers more on their client support skills than their development skills. Which of the following would best describe the software company's performance management process?
contaminated
Elle Inc. is a firm that holds frequent reviews and feedback sessions for its employees. It demands that the same person review the employees of a team to ensure that the performance evaluation is consistent; tests-retests are conducted periodically to make sure the evaluation is consistent. These two steps taken by Elle Inc. focus on the _____ of performance management.
reliability
Consistency in ratings given by two individuals who evaluate an employee's performance is known as _____ reliability.
internal consistency
A measure that results in drastically different ratings over time lacks _____ reliability.
test-retest
Which of the following statements best defines the acceptability of a performance measure?
It is the extent to which a performance measure is deemed to be satisfactory or adequate by those who use it.
The extent to which a performance measure gives guidance to employees about what is expected of them is called _____.
specificity
Which of the following approaches to measuring performance uses some overall assessment of an individual's performance or worth and seeks to develop a ranking of the individuals within a work group?
The comparative approach
Which of the following is a comparative approach to ranking that consists of a manager looking at a list of employees, deciding who the best employee is, and crossing that person's name off the list?
Alternation ranking
The ranking technique that requires certain percentages of employees to be categorized into predetermined categories or groups based on their performance is known as _____.
forced distribution
The _____ method requires managers to compare every employee with every other employee in a work group, giving an employee a score of 1 every time he or she is considered the higher performer.
paired comparison
Jian is a manager at Zobos Corp. He needs to perform an evaluation of his subordinates. He does this by pairing each of his subordinates with every other subordinate in the same group, then selects the higher performer between the two. At the end of the process, he calculates the number of times a subordinate has been the higher performer in a match-up. Which type of performance management system does Jian employ to perform the evaluation?
paired comparison
Roundel Inc. is a company that sells automobile tires. The company is projecting an increase in sales in the next 12 months and is looking to fill the senior positions through internal recruiting to meet this demand. The company is evaluating the individual performances and seeking to develop some ranking of the individuals within a work group to identify the best performer. Which of the following approaches is the company using?
the comparative approach
The _____ approach to performance management focuses on the extent to which individuals have certain characteristics or traits believed desirable for the company's success.
attribute
Which of the following attribute approaches to performance management is most commonly used?
Graphic rating scales
Teknikal Inc. decides to implement a new performance management system. It consists of a list of five traits used to evaluate all the employees. The manager considers one employee at a time and, on a continuum with different points, circles the number that signifies how much of a particular trait the individual has. Which type of performance management system is Teknikal Inc. using?
Graphic rating scale
In the graphic rating scale, the rater
considers one employee at a time, circling the number that signifies how much of that trait the individual has.
In which performance technique are managers given three statements of performance per dimension and asked to indicate whether an employee's performance is above (+), at (0), or below (-) the statements?
Mixed-standard scale
Which of the following is true regarding the attribute approach to performance management?
It is easy to develop and is generalizable across organizations and strategies.
Which of the following approaches would be worst suited to providing managers with the specific guidance required to correct an employee's performance deficiencies?
the attribute approach
Which performance management technique initially involves the identification of a large number of critical incidents, followed by the classification of these incidents into performance dimensions, and finally ranking these incidents into levels of performance?
Behaviorally anchored rating scale
The performance management method that requires managers to rate the frequency with which an employee has exhibited a behavior during a rating period is the _____.
behavioral observation scale
Which of the following is true regarding behavioral approaches to performance measurement?
They link the company's strategy to the specific behavior necessary to implement that strategy.
The _____ approach assumes that subjectivity can be eliminated from the measurement process and that outcomes are the closest indicators of one's contribution to organizational effectiveness.
results
Which of the following is a means of measuring and feeding back productivity information to personnel with the main goal of motivating employees to higher levels of productivity?
Productivity Measurement and Evaluation System
Which of the following is the first step in the Productivity Measurement and Evaluation System (ProMES)?
People in the organization identify the set of activities or objectives the organization expects to accomplish.
Which of the following is true about the results approach to performance management?
The results approach minimizes subjectivity, relying on objective, quantifiable indicators of performance.
A performance management system designed with a strong quality orientation can be expected to
use multiple sources to evaluate person and system factors.
_____ consists of practices participated in by employees from all levels of the company that focus on continuous improvement of business processes.
Kaizen
Which of the following statistical process quality control techniques help identify the redundancies in procedures that increase manufacturing or service time?
Process-flow analyses
A _____ is a quality control technique that lists the causes of a problem in decreasing order of importance.
Pareto chart
Which quality control technique is useful for understanding the amount of variance between an outcome and the expected value or average outcome?
A histogram
Which of the following observations is true about scattergrams?
They help employees determine whether the relationship between two variables or events is positive, negative, or zero.
Which of the following is true about the quality approach to performance measurement?
The quality approach adopts a systems-oriented focus.
Both the comparative and the attribute approaches to performance measurement are _____.
very low on specificity
Which of the following approaches to performance measurement minimizes contamination and deficiency?
The behavioral approach
_____ are the most frequently used source of performance information.
Managers
Which of the following is true of peers as the source of performance information?
Peers have expert knowledge of job requirements and often have the most opportunity to observe an employee in day-to-day activities.
Appraisals that involve collecting subordinates' evaluations of a manager's behavior or skills are known as _____.
upward feedback
Which of the following is a disadvantage of subordinate evaluations?
Subordinates have power over their managers, thus putting the managers in a difficult situation.
The _____ technique consists of having multiple raters above, equal to, and below the manager providing input into a manager's evaluation.
360-degree appraisal
At BayPoint Strategies, employees can work on several projects over the course of a year, reporting to different managers and interacting with a variety of team members. Which of the following approaches would be most effective and efficient in assessing employee performance at this consulting firm?
Social performance management
A competent employee receives lower-than-deserved ratings because of a few outstanding colleagues who set very high performance standards. This is an example of a _____ rater error.
contrast
_____ is a rater error in which a rater gives high ratings to all employees regardless of their performance.
Leniency
A _____ rater error is one in which a rater gives middle or average ratings to all employees despite their performance.
central tendency
_____ rating error occurs when a rater gives an employee high ratings on all aspects of performance because of the rater?s overall positive impression of the employee.
Halo
Benito, a psychology student, has had an overall negative impression of his psychology professor. As a consequence, during the end-of-term appraisal, he rates his professor low on all performance criteria. Which of the following rater errors has Benito committed?
Horns
A situation in which evaluators purposefully distort a rating to achieve personal or company goals is referred to as _____.
appraisal politics
_____ attempts to emphasize the multidimensional nature of performance and thoroughly familiarize the raters with the actual content of various performance dimensions.
Rater accuracy training
_____, attended by managers, provide a way to help ensure that performance is evaluated consistently across managers and to reduce the influence of rating errors and politics on appraisals.
Calibration meetings
Which of the following is an example of frame-of-reference training?
Demita emphasizes using the same idea of high, medium, and low performances when making evaluations.
CobWeb Inc., a software firm, assesses managers based on how well they understand their subordinates, as well as the factors involved in their poor performance. Which of the following examples is the most appropriate evaluation of the input factors involved in analyzing poor performance?
DeShaun checks if the job flow and procedures are logical.
In what legal suit would the plaintiff allege that the performance measurement system varied according to individuals?
Discrimination suit
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