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A performance appraisal system where managers and employees set goals together.
→ What is Management by Objectives (MBO)?
This is the most commonly used training method for delivering large amounts of information.
→ What is a Lecture?
This need, according to McClelland, is most common among successful managers.
→ What is the Need for Achievement?
This type of evaluator often interacts most with staff and can offer accurate assessments.
→ What is the Immediate Supervisor?
Orientation programs help reduce this costly HR problem.
→ What is Employee Turnover?
This method ranks employees best to worst in pairs.
→ What is the Paired Comparison Method?
This training strategy involves rotating employees through different jobs.
→ What is Job Rotation?
A manager who has more affiliation than power is called this type.
→ What is an Affiliation Manager?
This type of rating bias causes the appraiser to rate too generously.
→ What is Leniency Bias?
The name of the interview where an employee is formally terminated.
→ What is a Discharge Interview?
This type of rating error occurs when the appraiser lets one trait overly influence the total score.
→ What is the Halo Effect?
These two interpersonal development roles often involve long-term professional support.
→ What are Coaching and Mentoring?
This motivational theory focuses on effort, performance, and reward links.
→ What is Expectancy Theory?
This type of evaluation allows employees to assess themselves.
→ What is Self-Appraisal?
This HR term refers to the rate at which employees leave an organization.
→ What is Turnover?
This evaluation tool uses a bell curve to categorize performance levels.
→ What is Forced Distribution?
This method uses real-life workplace cases to develop decision-making.
→ What is Case Study Training?
This management approach sets goals collaboratively, not top-down.
→ What is MBO (Management by Objectives)?
The legal term for dismissing employees despite high appraisals.
→ What is Pretext?
This is the term for programs that familiarize new hires with their job duties.
→ What is Specific Job Orientation?
This method collects feedback from supervisors, peers, subordinates, and the employee.
→ What is the 360-Degree Appraisal?
An effective technique for training managers on task prioritization and written communication.
→ What is In-Basket Training?
The AHLEI suggests this style of leadership leads to resentment among employees.
→ What is Autocratic Leadership?
These individuals are included in a 360-degree feedback loop.
→ What are Supervisors, Peers, Subordinates, and the Employee?
This HR metric should be reviewed before terminating staff.
→ What is the Employee’s Disciplinary History?