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system, the aim of which is to ensure that the employee's performance is supporting the
company's strategic aims. Performance management includes practices through which the
manager defines the employee's capabilities, and evaluates and rewards the person's effort.
(LO 9.1; AACSB: Analytic Skills; Learning Outcome: Describe the process of performance
appraisal and different appraisal methods)
8. Answer the question: How would you get the interviewee to talk during an appraisal
interview? There are several techniques that will help: 1) stop and listen to what the person
is saying ... don't be afraid of a little silence; 2) ask open-ended questions; 3) use prompting
statements like "go on," or "tell me more;" 4) restate the person's last statement as a
question. (LO 9.7; Learning Outcome: Describe the process of performance appraisal and
different appraisal methods)
INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP ACTIVITIES
1. Working individually or in groups, develop a graphic rating scale for the following
jobs: secretary, professor, directory assistance operator. Job characteristics may
include, but not be limited to: Secretary--quantity of work, frequency of errors, attendance,
and initiative; Engineer--initiative, significance of contribution to the organization, problem-
solving skills, frequency of errors, and communication skills; Directory Assistance Operator--
speed, attendance, accuracy, and friendliness. In each case, the students should come up
with a defining statement that clarifies what the job characteristic means. (LO 9.4; AACSB:
Analytic Skills; Learning Outcome: Describe the process of performance appraisal and
different appraisal methods)
2. Working individually or in groups, describe the advantages and disadvantages of using
the forced distribution appraisal method for college professors. Students should review
the section on the forced distribution method and describe how the use of this method would
impact the rating of their college professors. (LO 9.4; AACSB: Analytic Skills; Learning
Outcome: Describe the process of performance appraisal and different appraisal methods)
3. Working individually or in groups, develop, over the period of a week, a set of critical
incidents covering the classroom performance of one of your instructors. If you had
the class conduct a job analysis and create a job description for an instructor in Chapter 3, it
would be helpful to refer to that to help identify what kinds of behavior and tasks the instructor
should be doing. This will give a good basis for students to observe and watch for critical
incidents. If they find critical incidents that are not based in these other documents, it will be
a good opportunity to go back and review how all this ties together and that we haven't
communicated to the instructor in the job description these behaviors or tasks that they are
now wanting to rate them on. (LO 9.4; AACSB: Analytic Skills; Learning Outcome: Describe
the process of performance appraisal and different appraisal methods )
4. The HRCI "Test Specifications" appendix at the end of this book lists the knowledge
someone studying for the HRCI certification exam needs to know in each area of
human resource management (such as in Strategic Management, Workforce Planning,
and Human Resource Development). In groups of 4 -5 students, do four things: (1)
review that appendix now; (2) identify the material in this chapter that relates to the
required knowledge the appendix lists; (3) write four multiple-choice exam questions
on this material that you believe would be suitable for inclusion in the HRCI exam; and
(4) if time permits, have someone from your team post your team's questions in front
of the class, so the students in other teams can take each other's exam questions. (LO
9.1-7; AACSB: Analytic Skills; Learning Outcome: Describe the process of performance
appraisal and different appraisal methods)
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