What Is the Problem-Solving Approach to Performance Feedback Interviews

question 148

Multiple Choice

What is the problem-solving approach to performance feedback interviews?

• A) This type of approach allows the employee to give herself her own performance evaluation and to set her own goals while discussing them with her superior.
• B) In this type of interview, the employee may come to the superior at any time and ask how she is doing and express any problems she is having so that they might come up with solutions together.
• C) This is when the superior has only negative results of a performance appraisal to discuss with her employee. Thus, they spend a great deal of time coming up with solutions to the many problems the employee is having.
• D) In this approach, the superior conveys both the good and bad aspects of the appraisal with the employee, and she then offers the employee solutions for the areas needing improvement.
• E) In this type of interview, the superior tells the employee what has been right and wrong, she gives the employee a chance to respond, and then they come up with agreed-upon solutions to the problems at hand.

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Definitions:

Type II Error

A statistical error that occurs when one fails to reject a false null hypothesis.

Alpha

In statistics, alpha represents the level of significance, the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, commonly set at 0.05 or 5%.

Beta

In statistics, it often refers to the probability of making a Type II error, or in finance, a measure of how much a stock's price could move in relation to the market.

Type II Error

A statistical error that occurs when a false null hypothesis is not rejected, implying that a true effect is missed.