This Meta analysis summarizes the results of existing studies on employee perception of appraisals’ fairness and justice, leading to employees’ satisfaction with the appraisal system and the appraisal ratings, under different cultural context. The study reveals that an appraisal system having an appropriate appeal procedure, dual purpose and employees’ participation in its design generally has ...

Teaching and learning research appraisal strategies is a challenge in undergraduate education and for practitioners alike. The appraisal of rigor in qualitative research papers is particularly complex and sophisticated work for many undergraduate research students and practitioners who want to develop their critical reading skills. The mnemonic strategy (The FACTS) explained in this paper is on...

The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that influence the measures used to evaluate performance, the person who carries out such appraisal and its frequency are analysed. Our results show that the characteristics of the establishment exert a sig...

When literature-based evidences or explanations are needed, it is possible use unsupervised-oriented hits appraisal. Unsupervised-oriented hits appraisal allows us to explore hits (e.g., research papers) open mind and it helps analyze the contents of the selection. Outcomes of the unsupervised-oriented hits appraisal are associations, clusters or topics that are produced unsupervised by the tec...

Sentiment analysis seeks to characterize opinionated or evaluative aspects of natural language text. We suggest here that appraisal expression extraction should be viewed as a fundamental task in sentiment analysis. An appraisal expression is a textual unit expressing an evaluative stance towards some target. The task is to find and characterize the evaluative attributes of such elements. This ...

In the virtual network environment, the C2C e-commerce has some problems in product quality, service, credit speculation. At present the credit appraisal system offered by domestic C2C ecommerce website ensures the network security to a certain extent while it has some problems in identity verification, evaluation rules and model, credit of buyers and sellers and so on. Focused on the largest n...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that pain patients differ from well children in their appraisal and coping with daily stressors and to test a model of the relation of stress appraisal and coping to symptoms and disability. METHODS Pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain (n = 143) and well children (n = 104) completed a 5-day diary study regarding their appraisal and coping with daily ...

Performance appraisal has widened as a concept and as a set of practices and in the form of performance management has become part of a more strategic approach to integrating HR activities and business policies. As a result of this, the research on the subject has moved beyond the limited conŽ nes of measurement issues and accuracy of performance ratings and has begun to focus more of social an...

Revalidation for all doctors in England, following the process defined in the Medical Appraisal Guide,1 finally started in December 2012 after ten years’ experience of developmental appraisal in the NHS. There has been significant debate about preserving the formative nature of the appraisal conversation in the context of the recent need for the appraiser to make explicit some of their professi...

Appraisal refers to the evaluation of the meaning of emotional stimuli and is considered causal in the generation of an emotional response. Cognitive neuroscience has paid little attention to a theoretical distinction between low-level appraisal, considered to be automatic and preattentive, and high-level appraisal that requires attentional and working memory resources. To disentangle low-level...