Psychology 2061A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Performance Appraisal, Job Performance, Wrongful Dismissal

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2061A/B
• Professor: Alex Benson

Document Summary

Promotions or pay increase: 40% of canadian employees work in a unionized environment, performance appraisal is usually the basis for dismissing underperforming employees to protect from wrongful dismissal, formative decisions supervisors give feedback to employees. Definition: behavior that is relevant to accomplishing the goals of an organization. Criterion relevancy: the degree to which the criterion measure captures behaviors or competencies that constitutes job performance. Criterion deficiency: refers to those job performance behaviors or competencies that are not measured by criterion. Criterion contamination: the degree, to which the criterion measure is influenced by, or measures, behaviors or competencies that are not part of job performance. Consistency of job performance: employee performance appears to decrease over time, regardless of experience or ability. Early job performance may be limit ed by experience or ability. Later job performance may be influenced more by motivation: changing performance levels may affect criterion measurements, dynamic criteria problem the issue of changing performance levels.