Assessment and Evaluation in the Workplace

Employee Selection and Promotion

What Is Being Sought in Employee Selection?

Promotion Decisions

Performance Appraisals

Take this on-line test on performance appraisals.

Subordinate feedback may foster better management: "New feedback systems are leading to better assessments for determining employees' merit pay increases and advancement."

Performance Appraisal
EMPLOYEE JOB PERFORMANCE AND RELATIONS WITH SUPERIOR AS MODERATORS OF THE EFFECT OF APPRAISAL GOAL SETTING ON EMPLOYEE WORK ATTITUDES.  A very brief abstract.

The Abuse of Evaluation

Polygraph

American Polygraph Association.

Information about polygraphs, etc.

How To Sting The Polygraph, with a picture.

An opinion.

Interrogation HINT of the month!

Establishing Criteria for Evaluation

 Frame-of-Reference

  Frame-of-Reference Training and Evaluation
KENTUCKY TEACHER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (KTIP).  "University faculty who wish to serve on intern committees must complete a one day training session prior to the committee assignment."  This is a good example of frame-of-reference training.  Text author Mark Garrison has participated in this program in  Kentucky.  Can you think of any other way that frame-of-reference training can be put to use?
frame-of-reference training articles
Dr. L. M. Sulsky's vita.  This professor is interested in this topic and has written three articles on it.

Job Analysis

Establishing Performance Goals

 BARS Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales

BARS
DETERMINING NECESSARY WORLD-CLASS SKILLS AND PROFICIENCIES FOR NONCOLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS.  Read this short abstract to find out how this study utilized BARS.
BARS Application
Says the promotor: "a complete interviewing package that leads the interviewer step-by-step through the interviewing process."  The Evaluation Form includes "Behaviorally anchored rating scales for each dimension or skill area assessed in the interview."
Practice Network and BARS
"Practice Network is dedicated to the discussion of issues of interest or import to the Industrial-Organizational practitioner."  See the section titled "A V-E-R-Y Big Project":  "The critical outcome of Phase 2 is the construction of behaviorally-anchored rating scales containing the work behaviors. The BARS will establish behavioral domains with associated KSAs and proficiency levels from which the assessment blueprint will be developed."Observing People at Work

The Assessment Center Process

Job Sampling Interviews

Productive Thinking

Personality Assessment: MMPI and Others

Association for Psychological Type
Learn about a training programs available for giving MBTI test. (This is an example.)
Take a simple MBTI  (MBTI test)

MMPI Resources

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2).
Self-Report Correlates of the MMPI-A in a non-clinical sample (Research).

Job Interest Inventories

Honesty Tests

A Closer Look at Honesty Tests

Employee Theft

Employee Theft  Thios site describes Self-Study Materials:  REID AUDIO CASSETTE COURSE ON EMPLOYEE THEFT INVESTIGATIONS (read about cases of "Embezzlements" and "Single incident theft involving unusual access" involving disgruntled employees).
Employee Theft, brief description of the problem.
Employee Theft.  United States Postal Inspection Service--Employee Theft/Embezzlement: penalties for postal employees (employee theft is serious business!).
Biting the hand that feeds you.  Gary Larsen humor (with Danish commentary).

Employee Monitoring
Computer-Based Monitoring  Monitoring Internet Traffic In The Workplace: Be Careful If You Screw Off On Company Time!  This is one employee's feelings about computer-based monitoring.
Electronic Performance Monitoring  Technological Surveillance in the Workplace--Monitoring E-Mail, Computer Files, Voice Mail, and Telephone Use Without Crossing the Privacy Line.

The Productive Uses of Assessment and Evaluation

Productive Thinking

Highlighted company names in the index are linked to the corporation's homepage. For additional, current information about the company, check their site. The number to the right of the company is the page number in the text where the company is discussed. Other resources include Hoover's database and Web search engines.

Go to the Index of Companies in Chapter 12

Prepared by Mark Garrison, January, 1998