this article reports part of the results of a research conducted at lorestan university of medical sciences in 1389. the study aimed at comparing the employee performance appraisal results in terms of current methods and 360-degree feedback and examining their possible relationship with employee satisfaction. accordingly, based on the nature of research, the sample was taken from four groups: s...

The idea that appraisal plays a role in emotion can be traced back to Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hume, who considered it self-evident that the states variously called passions, affects, or emotions are differentiated by the type of evaluation or judgment a person makes of the eliciting event. This shared conviction was shattered by James' (1884/1968) claim that "that the bodily changes ...

Incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) training in dental curricula is now an accreditation requirement for dental schools, but questions remain about the most effective ways to assess learning outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare three assessment methods for EBP training and to assess their relation to students' overall course grades. Participants in the study w...

performance management is an ongoing process of recognizing, measuring, and individual and team performance development and aligning them with the organizational strategic goals (objectives). therefore the employee performance appraisal plays an important part in recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of the employees. on the other hand this task is done by individuals who are likely to make ...

Enterprise-wide information systems adoption by organizations has become common place. Even with the benefits offered by such systems, there have also been many failures. One of the important reasons for these failures is inappropriate project evaluation and selection. In order to reduce the level of project failures, we introduce an innovative methodology, the financial appraisal profile (FAP)...

The financial comprehensive appraisal method plays an essential role in decision-making for investors and reflecting real company’s financial comprehensive situation. Because of the grey characteristics of financial information, this paper constructs a grey relational model with a index system of financial comprehensive appraisal by grey relation theory. It is applied to listed companies in rea...

The polarity of a subjective sentence in customers’ reviews depends on not only the semantic orientation of opinion words, but also their context, especially the modified features. An Appraisal Expression consists of an opinion word and the modified feature, and can accurately describe the holders’ opinion about the feature. In this paper, we propose a novel method that uses generalized mutual ...

Despite a growing awareness of methodological issues, the literature on appraisal has not so far provided adequate answers to some of the key challenges involved in reliably identifying and classifying evaluative language expressions. This article presents a step-wise method for the manual annotation of appraisal in text that is designed to optimize reliability, replicability, and transparency....