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Article: Performance appraisal: maintaining system effectiveness.
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- Public Personnel Management
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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The introduction of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures and Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act in 1978 ushered in an era of heightened concern regarding appraisal issues. Although a great deal has been written in such areas as appraisal techniques, rater cognitive processes and situational influences on appraisals, relatively little attention has focused on maintaining a performance appraisal system after it has been implemented.(1) Keeping a performance appraisal system responsive to the needs of an organization is particularly important as many significant personnel decisions are based on system output.
This article draws on relevant ...