The Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales Are Best Defined as a Performance

question 66

Multiple Choice

The behaviorally anchored rating scales are best defined as a performance appraisal:

• A) that only rates the degree to which an employee has achieved various characteristics.
• B) in which an employee is rated on scales containing statements describing performance in several areas.
• C) that presents an appraiser with sets of statements describing employee behavior and the appraiser rates 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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Definitions:

Inferential Techniques

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Conclusions

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