This study contributes to our understanding of which factors predict raters’ policies for combining performance components into an overall job performance rating. We used a work-roles framework to examine the effects of rater source and team-based culture. The sample consisted of 612 individuals in three job categories (317 nurses, 168 personnel recruiters and 127 sales representatives). Respon...

The assessment of chess players is both an increasingly attractive opportunity and an unfortunate necessity. The chess community needs to limit potential reputational damage by inhibiting cheating and unjustified accusations of cheating: there has been a recent rise in both. A number of counter-intuitive discoveries have been made by benchmarking the intrinsic merit of players’ moves: these cal...

this research compared ratings of task performance and contextual performance from three different sources: self, peer, and supervisor. participants were service industry employees in the service industries in yogyakarta, indonesia. a sample of 146 employees and 40 supervisors   from the service industries provided ratings of task performance and contextual performance. the results indicated th...

We examined the utility of frame-of-reference (FOR) training and behavioral observation training (BOT) for enhancing rating accuracy in a field study involving Canadian military personnel. Participants were randomly assigned to either (a) FOR training, (b) FOR training + BOT, or (c) control training. Participants were assessed on a variety of training program evaluation criteria, including rati...

An attention on leisure consciousness and related activities by Taiwan people also signifies an enhanced standard on service quality and demand satisfaction of tourism and leisure industry, in which a perception of customer satisfaction perceived by consumers in terms of appraisal dimension and measurement was gradually replaced by intangible accommodation experience or personalized service by ...

INTRODUCTION Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is an assessment instrument that is known worldwide. It is widely used for rating the severity of illness. Results from evaluations in psychiatry should characterize the patients. Rating of GAF is based on collected information. The aim of the study is to identify the factors involved in collecting information that is relevant for rating GAF, ...

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