Questions for thought and discussion that allow you to make the connection between your learning content and your experiences in the working world.
Work Application 8.1
Select a job you have or have had. Do you or did you know the organization’s mission and objectives? Briefly state the mission. If you don’t know it, find out. Do you understand how your job fits or helps to meet the organization’s mission and objectives? Explain in some detail.
The Performance Appraisal Process
LO 8.1 Discuss the difference between performance management and performance appraisals.
Work Application 8.2
Assess the accuracy of the measurements of your performance on your last performance appraisal. Be sure to describe the measures’ validity, reliability, acceptability, and feasibility plus whether the measures were specific and based on the organization’s mission and objectives.
Accurate Performance Measures
LO 8.1 Discuss the difference between performance management and performance appraisals.
Work Application 8.3
Select a job you have had. Did your boss use critical incidents in your evaluations? Assess how well your boss used coaching between formal performance appraisal meetings to review your performance.
Critical Incidents Method
LO 8.4 List the commonly used performance measurement methods and forms.
Work Application 8.4
Select an organization, preferably one you work for or have worked for. Identify and briefly describe the assessment methods and/or forms that are used to assess employee performance.
How Do We Use Appraisal Methods and Forms
LO 8.4 List the commonly used performance measurement methods and forms.
Work Application 8.5
Select your current job or a past job. Identify who has or had input into your performance appraisal.
Who Should Assess Performance
LO 8.5 Discuss the available options for determining the rater/evaluator.
Work Application 8.6
Select your current job or a past job. Identify common mistakes your supervisor made when assessing your performance, during either an informal coaching or a formal appraisal review.
Common Problems Within the Performance Appraisal Process
LO 8.6 Name some of the common problems encountered with performance appraisals and provide a method used to avoid each.
Work Application 8.7
Select your current job or a past job. Identify and explain how the organization’s performance appraisal process does or doesn’t use each of the three methods of overcoming common performance appraisal problems. How can the organization improve the process?
Avoiding Performance Appraisal Problems
LO 8.6 Name some of the common problems encountered with performance appraisals and provide a method used to avoid each.
Work Application 8.8
Select an organization you work for or have worked for. Does it use formal evaluations? Do you believe the organization should or should not conduct formal evaluations?
The Evaluative Performance Appraisal Interview
LO 8.7 Briefly discuss the differences between evaluative performance reviews and developmental performance reviews.
Work Application 8.9
Assess how well your present or past boss helped develop your knowledge, skills, and competencies through informal coaching and/or the formal performance appraisal interviews. Describe how the boss could improve.
The Developmental Performance Appraisal Interview
LO 8.7 Briefly discuss the differences between evaluative performance reviews and developmental performance reviews.
Work Application 8.10
Select an organization you work for or have worked for. Does it use EPM? If so, describe the EPM system. Do you believe the organization should or should not use EPM?
Electronic Performance Monitoring
Work Application 8.11
Let’s look at your college professors’ grading habits. Are some professors hard graders (meaning they give few As), are others easy graders (meaning they give lots of As), or are they all consistent? Assuming there is inconsistency, should the college administration dictate a forced grade distribution?
Electronic Performance Monitoring
