performance appraisal and employment decisions

Performance Appraisal
Reasons for appraising employees
1) For administrative decisions: so we can determine promotions/demotions, assign raises, fire someone.
2) To give employee development and feedback: so they can correct what they do wrong and continue to do the things they do well.
3) research reasons: to develop criteria, to validate predictor.

Ultimate vs. actual criterion

- Ultimate/theoretical criterion: refers to your standard, your expectations of what good performance is considered. It¡¦s the construct that you are trying to measure. It¡¦s the definition of WHAT good performance is rather than how it is measured.

- Actual criterion: operationalization of your theoretical/ultimate criterion. Exactly what physical measure you are trying to use to measure your theoretical/ultimate criterion. The measure of theoretical/ultimate criterion.

Criterion relevance: what you are interested in and can capture. The extent to which actual criterion assess...