Formal Performance Appraisal Systems

question 88

Multiple Choice

Formal performance appraisal systems:

• A)should be used as disciplinary devices rather than as constructive feedback tools aimed at helping employees improve.
• B)provide clues to the supervisor's own performance and may suggest where the supervisor must improve.
• C)rarely help supervisors identify areas in which employees need improvement.
• D)generally result in all the employees of a team receiving the same merit raises.

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Definitions:

Unconscious Mind

Part of the mind that is not within an individual's immediate awareness, containing thoughts, memories, and desires believed to influence behavior.

Unconscious Thought

Mental processes that occur without conscious awareness, influencing behaviors, decisions, and emotions.

Conscious Thought

Mental processes and concepts that are within an individual's awareness and can be deliberately considered or manipulated.

Primary Process

In psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious thought process that is illogical, irrational, and driven by the pleasure principle, often associated with dreams and neurotic symptoms.