A Graphic Rating Scale Is Best Defined as a Performance

question 63

Multiple Choice

A graphic rating scale is best defined as a performance appraisal:

• A) that primarily rates the degree to which an employee has achieved various characteristics.
• B) that primarily measures the relative performance of employees in a group.
• C) that presents an appraiser with sets of statements describing employee behavior and requires the appraiser to rate the statements.
• D) in which a supervisor typically keeps a written record of incidents that show positive and negative ways an employee has acted.

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