This study investigated the e€ect of a process versus a results focus as well as a group versus individual-based approach to performance appraisals. Four experimental conditions were investigated, with dependent variables of appraisal satisfaction, perceived accuracy of the performance appraisal, expectations of performance improvement, and actual performance. The results showed that a process ...

Until the 1980s, companies relied solely on performance appraisal (PA) systems based on traditional cost accounting systems to control, monitor, and improvement of their members. Evaluating and ranking the members performance in organizations are challenging tasks involving several factors. In this study has tried to compare five different methods of PA in Fars province's University of Applied ...

BACKGROUND The UK general practitioner (GP) appraisal system is deemed to be an inadequate source of performance evidence to inform a future medical revalidation process. A long-running voluntary model of external peer review in the west of Scotland provides feedback by trained peers on the standard of GP colleagues' core appraisal activities and may 'add value' in strengthening the robustness ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the relationships between optimism, self-efficacy, symptom distress, treatment complexity, illness appraisal, coping, and mood disturbance in patients with advanced-stage cancer.
. DESIGN Cross-sectional study.
. SETTING Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven in Connecticut, an outpatient comprehensive cancer center.
. SAMPLE A convenience sample of 121 adu...

david lawrence sackett, oc, md, frsc, frcp was an american-canadian physician, trialist, and teacher. he is best known as one of the pioneers of evidence-based medicine (ebm), which is arguably the most important movement in medicine over the past three decades. he founded the first clinical epidemiology department in mcmaster university in hamilton, canada in 1967. in addition, he was the head...

OBJECTIVE Identify if constructs from the Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress Model, including Emotion and Stress Related Eating, Appraisal of Ability and Resources to Cope, and Appraisal of Outside Influences and Stressors, were related to overweight and obesity. DESIGN Data were collected from a cross-sectional study using the Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress Ques...

A comprehensive and behaviorally formulated theory for psychopathology disorders termed as behavioral-cognitive inhibition theory is presented. It constitutes an integration and re-formulation of several influential psychological theories of psychopathology and empirical findings in imagery research. According to the behavioral-cognitive inhibition theory the development of PTSD and other psych...