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Performance Appraisal as Effective Management or Deadly Management Disease

Two Initial Empirical Investigations

Arizona State University

Robert L. Cardy

Arizona State University

Gregory H. Dobbins

University of Tennessee

Understanding person and system sources of work variation is fundamental to performance appraisal. Two divergent perspectives on this issue, the traditional human resource management view and the statistical process control view (Deming, 1986), are contrasted. Two studies are reported that investigate two specific questions that arise from a broader view of the appraisal process. Results indicate that managers and subordinates believe that typical poor performance has different causes and that actual productivity levels far outweigh person or system sources of performance variance in appraisal judgments. Implications for performance appraisal practice and research are discussed.

Group & Organization Management, Vol. 16, No. 2, 143-159 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/105960119101600203


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