Please answer these questions to the best of your ability using the information that you gathered from reading the chapter, along with information from your own work experience.
- What are 3 reasons why it's important to assess employee performance on a regular basis? Explain.
- Please re-read the section in the book on the different tools used for appraising performance (graphic rating scale, critical incident method, behaviorally anchored rating scales, etc.). Based on what you read in the book, please rank all of the methods listed in the book in the order that you believe will be the most fair to employees from an employee’s perspective. Why did you choose this ranking? (Why did you choose your top pick as your top and your bottom pick as your bottom?)
- Now reorder your list in the order that you believe are the easiest for supervisors to administer from a supervisor’s perspective? Why did you choose this order?
- Did your two lists agree with one another? What did you learn by doing this exercise?