Psychology 2660A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cherry Picking, Job Performance, Eval

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: John Meyer

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Lecture 4: performance appraisal when managers asked if they should do away with testing they said they did hate it but should keep it because its important. Employee development like letting employees know their strengths and weaknesses. Many problems arise and i/o psychologists try to find the solutions. Ultimate criterion encapsulates everything (what we want to measure. Before designing measure you need to make sure your tool measures what you want it to. Relevance degree to which it"s a good match of what it is supposed to measure. Models of jobs focus on task performance but organizational effectiveness requires more. Its not that the actual criterion changes but the performance does. Best thing organizations can do is monitor how often this occurs. Performance ratings (graphic rating scale) and rating errors. If we"re unsure what the anchors mean it is poor but it is good because it is quantifiable and easy to construct.