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 ...

abstract there are varieties of researches for appraisal of results obtained by countries in olympics, using data envelopment analysis method. this research is aimed to make such appraisal for iranians’ results in olympics games using the dea method. before taking any measures, main issues of dea methods for appraisal of olympics games in the previous research were discussed, afterward optimiza...

Chronic stress, physiological and psychological, has been strongly associated with the onset of psychopathology, highlighting the importance of research investigating the experiences of stress. A current model of the stress process includes stress appraisal, stress reactivity, and performance in stressful situations. Past research has treated performance as a dependent variable in this model, b...

OBJECTIVE Previous work investigating deficits in self-appraisal in behavioural-variant frontotemporal degeneration (bvFTD) has focused on a single domain: social/behavioural processes. We examined whether a domain-specific versus multi-domain model best explains degraded self-appraisal in bvFTD. METHODS 49 patients with bvFTD and 73 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) were administered qu...

Performance appraisal of employee is important in managing the human resource of an organization. With the change towards knowledge-based capitalism, maintaining talented knowledge workers is critical. However, management classification of “outstanding”, “poor” and “average” performance may not be an easy decision. Besides that, superior might also tend to judge the work performance of their su...

African-American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than are White women but are more likely to be adversely affected. Although differences in incidence and mortality have been explored in some depth, little attention has been paid to how these women cope with the disease or whether their appraisal of their breast cancer differs from that of White women. Using a comparativ...

In Multi-user Feedback support system or 360 0 Feedback, data on the performance of an individual are collected systematically from a number of stakeholders and are used for improving performance. The 360 0 Feedback approach provides a consistent management philosophy meeting the criterion outlined previously. The 360 0 feedback based appraisal is a comprehensive method where in the feedback ab...