1. Review of Chapter 7: Appraising and Managing Performance
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul. Machiavelli

2. Performance Appraisal Types & Formats
Relative Judgment
Absolute Judgment
Straight Ranking
Narrative Essays
Weighted Checklist
Paired Comparison
Graphic Rating Scale
Behavioral Observation Scale
Based on critical incidents
Forced Distribution
Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale

3. Relative vs. Absolute
How is a relative judgment different from an absolute judgment?
What is the benefit of using relative?
What is the benefit of using absolute?
What are critical incidents?

4. Performance Appraisal Types & Formats
Job Analysis
Job Description
Performance Appraisal Items

5. Practice Job Description
Job title: Pig Nutrition Coordinator
Job summary: coordinate pig nutrition, from making leftover food suitable for consumption to feeding
Job duties and responsibilities
Sort through leftovers removing inedible objects
Incorporate nutritious additives
Transfer food and by-products to appropriate locations
Job specifications and minimum qualifications
Driving, standing, sorting food with hands, climbing, lifting
Driver’s license

6. Practice identifying performance appraisal formats
The following performance appraisal items are based on the job description from the Pig Slop Processor episode of Dirty Jobs.
Indicate the type of format that is used for each item.

7. ___(+ 5) Removes all inedible objects from leftover food.
___(-5) Fails to remove all inedible objects from leftover food.

8. Rank all pig nutrition coordinators according to their ability to correctly sort through leftover food. The top 50% will be given a raise.
1.______________ Top 50%
2.______________
3.______________
4.______________ Bottom 50%

9. 1 2 3 4 5 Does not remove any inedible objects from leftovers
Removes some inedible objects from leftovers
Removes all inedible objects from leftovers

10. Compare the sorting ability of each pig nutrition coordinator with every other pig nutrition coordinators so that all possible comparisons have been made.

11. Rank all pig nutrition coordinators according to their ability to correctly sort (i.e., don’t leave inedible objects in leftover food).
1.______________
2.______________
3.______________
4.______________

12. Removes inedible objects from leftover food:
Never Sometimes Always

13. Please comment on the following aspects of performance:
Whether or not the employee removed inedible
objects from leftovers
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14. Removal of inedible objects:
Poor Average Excellent

15. Rater errors What is frame of reference training?
What are restriction of range errors?

16. Performance Feedback
When is the best time to give performance feedback?
What words should you avoid using when giving performance feedback?