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    RATERS ERRORS IN PERFORMANCE

    NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGE

    Name: Nida Gondal

    Class: be (se)-viii

    Submitted to: Sir col.Sial

    Assignment no: 01

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    Since we are all human, it is common for us to make errors when assessing

    employee behavior and writing performance appraisal documents. These

    errors are reflective of our unconscious biases toward the employee. These

    biases can give an employee an unfair advantage or disadvantage overothers in their peer group. A barrier to the accuracy and credibility

    ofperformance measures is posed by a number of rater errors, perceptual

    biases and other sources of distortion in performance ratings.

    Questions that are to be ask while evaluating performance:

    Am I basing my rating on documentation of my observations of the

    Employees behavior, or am I making judgments based on my perceptions?

    Am I looking at each of this Employees competencies separately, or have I

    generalized about his or her performance?

    Have I looked at this Employees competencies over time, or have I

    generalized according to initial perceptions of her or him?

    Have I recognized any biases I may have so I do not let them influence my

    judgments?

    Have I rated this Employee on his or her actual behavior or have I rated her

    or him compared to other individuals?

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    RATER ERRORS IN PERFORMANCE:

    HALO EFFECT:

    Halo Effect is when a raters overall positive or negative impression of an

    individual employee leads to rating him or her same across all rating

    dimensions. This is when a manager really likes or dislikes an employee and

    allows their personal feelings about this employee to influence their

    performance ratings of them.

    LIENIENCY ERROR:

    Leniency error is when a raters tendency is to rate all employees at the

    positive end of the scale (positive leniency) or at the low end of the scale

    (negative leniency). This can happen when a manager over-emphasizes

    either positive or negative behaviors.

    CENTRAL TENDENCY ERROR:

    Central tendency error is the raters tendency to avoid making extreme

    judgments of employee performance resulting in rating all employees in the

    middle part of a scale. This can happen either when a manager is not

    comfortable with conflict and avoids low marks to avoid dealing with

    behavioral issues or when a manager intentionally forces all employees tothe middle of the scale.

    RECENCY ERROR:

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    Recency error is the raters tendency to allow more recent incidents (either

    effective or ineffective) of employee behavior to carry too much weight

    in evaluation of performance over an entire rating period. This can be

    extreme on both ends of the spectrum. Either an employee just finishing amajor project successfully or an employee may have had a negative incident

    right before the performance appraisal process and it is on the forefront of

    the managers thoughts about that employee. It is for this reason that

    keeping accurate records of performance throughout the year to refer back

    to during performance appraisal time is so important.

    FIRST IMPREESION ERROR:

    First impression error is the raters tendency to let their first impression of

    an employees performance carries too much weight in evaluation of

    performance over an entire rating period. An example of this would be a

    new employee joining the organization and performing at high levels during

    their honeymoon period and then possibly losing some of that initial

    momentum.

    SIMILAR-TO-ME ERRORS:

    Similar-to-me error is when the raters tendency is biased in performance

    evaluation toward those employees seen as similar to the raters

    themselves. We can all relate to people who are like us but cannot let our

    ability to relate to someone influence our rating of their employee

    performance.

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    Since human biases can easily influence the rating process, it is important to

    create objective measures for rating performance. Observing behaviors and

    using available technology to help track performance can take some of the

    biases out of the rating process.

    When thinking about performance appraisals, it is essential to look at the

    rater. If performance appraisals are to be helpful, they must be accurate.

    When a manager is subject to one of the rater errors, the rating is not a

    clear indication of the employees performance. Therefore, training raters to

    consider these rating errors may help to eliminate inaccurate performance

    appraisals.

    Stereotyping

    Stereotyping is the tendency to apply the same generalizations to all members of

    specific social groups. One of the more common types of stereotyping that occur in

    the workplace is gender stereotyping. Research conducted by Madeline Heilman, a

    professor of psychology at NYU, suggests that women are often evaluated more

    negatively than men, even when both are trained to do a job the same way.