Sources of variation in performance appraisal ratings due to personality and work environment characteristics.
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Title
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Sources of variation in performance appraisal ratings due to personality and work environment characteristics.
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Identifier
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AAI9130355
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identifier
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9130355
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Creator
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Montgomery, Linda Elaine.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Roger Millsap
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Date
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1991
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Industrial | Psychology, Personality | Business Administration, Management
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether the personality traits of a rater and/or the work environment to which a rater is exposed have a significant impact on performance appraisal ratings given by a rater. Raters' personality traits that were investigated include: vocational personality characteristics and introversion-extroversion as measured by the Strong Interest Inventory (SII); and negative affectivity, positive affectivity, and constraint as measured by Tellegen's (1982) Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ).;Eighty males (N = 37) and females (N = 43) served as raters in assessing the work performance of ratees depicted in written scenarios. Each rater was given four performance scenarios to rate based on his/her SII profile with each of the four scenarios representing conditions where the ratee's SII profile and the work environment were either matched or unmatched with the rater's SII profile: (a) matched rater/ratee SII profiles and work environment (SPSE); (b) unmatched rater/ratee SII profile and matched work environment (DPSE); (c) matched rater/ratee SII profile and unmatched work environment (SPDE); and (d) unmatched rater/ratee SII profile and unmatched work environment (DPDE).;The results indicate that rater's NA is not significantly related to performance appraisal outcomes; low PA raters gave significantly (p =.018) more favorable ratings than high PA raters for the DPDE condition; low Constraint raters gave significantly (p =.014) more favorable ratings than high Constraint raters for the SPSE condition; for raters with differentiated SII profiles (large differences between rater's highest and lowest SII GOT scores), introverted raters gave significantly (p =.005) more favorable ratings than extroverted raters for the SPSE condition; for all raters combined, introverted raters gave significantly (p =.001) more favorable ratings than extroverted raters for the DPDE condition; raters with differentiated SII profiles rated SPSE scenarios significantly (p =.008) less favorably than they did DPSE scenarios; raters rated SPDE scenarios significantly (p =.014) more favorably than they did DPDE scenarios; caucasian raters gave significantly (p =.030) less favorable ratings than non-caucasian raters (blacks, hispanics, asians, and others); and environmental conditions were not significantly related to performance appraisal outcomes (SPSE vs. SPDE or DPSE vs. DPDE).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
