摘要:

Eight prescriptions for performance appraisal systems are considered in the context of case law at the Federal Supreme and Appeals Court level. Numerous cases are cited involving organizations that have violated one or more of the prescriptions. Implications for personnel decision making are discussed.

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00939.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The research dealing with female managerial performance has generally been plagued with empirically inconsistent results, anecdotal literature and an inability to develop generalizable theory. A prepositional analysis of the female performance literature is utilized in an effort to provide direction and focus. The paper concludes that methodological problems may be contributing to invalid conclusions concerning female performance, and efforts to improve performance. In addition, it is concluded that organizational initiates designed to aid women have not been significant.

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00940.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This study addresses three questions. (1) Does the meaning of the neutral anchor shift when its position is moved away from the middle of the series? The location of (psychological) zero in rating scales is crucial if they are to be used as multipliers (e.g., as weights or in functional equations). (2) Does moving the neutral anchor from a central position increase sensitivity (variance) of ratings? Such displacement has been used frequently without investigation of its effects. (3) Are any of the above effects general across types of anchors?Displacement had significant effects (N= 210) on meaning of the neutral anchor and on sensitivity. Stability of meaning of anchors, however, was greater when anchors were words rather than faces. Therefore verbal anchors should be used, with the neutral anchor located centrally, to establish zero; but displaced to increase sensitivity at one end of the scale.

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00941.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

All published studies comparing behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) with other rating formats were reviewed. Results indicate that BARS and other formats appear to differ relatively little (if at all) with regard to psychometric characteristics (leniency, halo, interrater agreement, ratee discriminability, validity and “accuracy”). Other variables, such as degree of rater participation in scale construction and rater preferences for different rating scale formats, also exhibited relatively little differences between BARS and other formats. A close examination of the studies, however, reveals numerous methodological problems confounding interpretations of results, making conclusions about the superiority or inferiority of BARS quite tenuous. Suggestions are made for more appropriate research directions and questions which seem more appropriate for rating scale investigati

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00942.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Responses of male and female managers in state public human service organizations are analyzed to determine if perceptual differences exist concerning the competence of women as managers in these organizations depending on whether an individual has or has not been supervised by a woman. Significant differences were found in only one area: the motivation of women to manage.

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00943.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A factor analysis of 11 variables, ferreted from the curriculum vitae (CV) of 338 applicants for the position of assistant professor of psychology, yielded four factors which were used as predictors in six stepwise multiple regression analyses in which the ratings of 92 CV's by five members of a search committee were utilized as the criteria, first collectively and then individually. The first factor which was chiefly composed of the number of publications, especially senior authorships, accounted for 16% of the total variance and was the most potent contributor to the multipleR.Comparison of the results of the single‐judge analyses revealed some notable vicissitudes in the prominence of the four predictors. Relationships of the present findings to the past policy‐capturing research were indica

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00944.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Recognizing the importance of the union in successfully implementing quality of worklife programs, numerous commentators have called for union‐management collaborative programs. In response to these pleas, recent studies have addressed union activists’perceptions of their unions’roles in negotiating quality of worklife as well as other issues. Although important, these studies have focused on the union leadership and have generally failed to consider the rank and file unionmembers'views. The primary objective of the present study was to examine union members’preferred roles of their union in negotiating quality of worklife, productivity, and traditional bargaining issues. A second purpose was to explore the correlates of their views concerning the union's role in dealing with these issues. Using data collected from 171 members of a railroad, union, the results showed that members’ support for union involvement tended to vary depending upon the type of issue in question. They strongly preferred collective bargaining when dealing with traditional union concerns and joint union‐management efforts when quality of worklife issues were involved. In predicting preferred union‐management cooperation, the importance of the individual predictors varied across the types of negotiation issues. However, attitudinal measures were generally found to be more important in explaining members’preferences than demographic or union participation measures. The results are discussed in terms of implications for implementing joint union‐ma

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00945.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This study investigated the extent to which corporate recruiters, students and faculty share an understanding of important job applicant characteristics and desirable job factors. Multivariate analyses revealed significant differences between the three groups. The implications of these findings for recruitment, selection, and career counseling are discussed.

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00946.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The need for an indirect method of attitude measurement that could be applied on an individual basis was suggested. Policy‐capturing was proposed as filling all requirements. When used in 3 experiments, this method detected prejudicial attitudes toward females that were not detected using traditional, direct method

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00947.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Research recently completed for a large international craft union provided the opportunity for an empirical assessment of functional job analysis (FJA) as a method for developing job‐related performance standards. Based on content‐oriented test development procedures, work sample tests were developed to measure operator achievement of these training standards. According to the results the tests significantly differentiated between skill levels of operating engineers in which the significant criterion factor was the degree of independence and autonomy the operator could be permitted in doing the work. FJA proved to be a useful technique for defining the work of operating engineers so that the knowledges, skills and abilities required can be easily communicated to the courts and the pub

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1981.tb00948.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY