Evaluating Differential Rater Functioning in Performance Ratings: Using a Goal-Based Approach
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: VancouverMeasuring performance in the workplace is an endeavor that has been the central focus of many applied researchers and practitioners.Due to the limited information that objective data provides to decision makers, subjective data are often used to supplement performance ratings.Unfortunately subjective ratings can be biased.Indeed, rating errors frequently bias ratings and have plagued performance evaluations.Much of the performance appraisal (PA) research has focused on ways of eliminating, detecting, or controlling these rater errors.The results from these areas are mixed and insufficient in providing insights and understanding about how to deal with rater errors.This research extends and tests a technique called differential person functioning (DPF; Johanson & Alsmadi, 2002) to the detection of rater bias (specifically leniency/severity) during a performance evaluation, as well as test a goal-based approach for performance evaluations.The DPF technique is used to identify the responses for a given individual that are different for different groups of items.The goal-based approach proposes that individuals' pursuit of different goals is what leads to different ratings.Two studies were conducted to examine these phenomena.The first study was a pilot study to refine the materials and manipulations that were to be used in the main study.Specifically, two different evaluation formats were compared, sex ------------Department 0.000 0.861 0.351 L Department 0.023 0.816 0.
Author: Kevin B. Tamanini
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W84924627