True / False Questions
1. The link between performance management and the organization's strategies and goals is often neglected.
2. A performance planning and evaluation (PPE) system is any system that seeks to tie the formal performance appraisal process to the company's strategy by specifying at the beginning of the evaluation period the types and level of performance that must be accomplished in order to achieve the strategy.
3. Managers are usually comfortable confronting employees with their performance weaknesses.
4. Validity refers to the consistency of a performance measure.
5. The extent to which a performance management system seeks performance consistent with the organization's strategy, goals, and culture is known as its acceptability.
6. Acceptability is affected by the extent to which employees believe the performance management system is consistent.
7. Multifaceted rankings require managers to rank employees within their departments from highest performer to poorest performer.
8. Comparative techniques of performance management virtually eliminate the problems of leniency, central tendency, and strictness.
9. Attribute-based performance methods are quite easy to develop and are generalizable across a variety of jobs, strategies, and organizations.
10. Behavior-based performance methods are the most popular performance evaluation approaches in organizations.
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