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I am revamping our performance management system and am in the process of revising the appraisal form. **What is the current thinking on the “rating scale method”? **Is it the norm
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Rating Scale Method for Performance Evaluations

posted at 11/25/2008 7:46 AM EST
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I am revamping our performance management system and am in the process of revising the appraisal form.

**What is the current thinking on the “rating scale method”?

**Is it the norm to have 4 or 5 ratings? I am considering moving from 5 to 4 ratings: Needs Improvement, Meets Expectations, Exceeds Expectations, and Continuously Exceeds Expectations.

I have a PSMJ book of sample evaluations and there are a lot of evaluations that have a rating scale of 100-90, 89-80, 79-70, 6-60, below 60 etc. The total points are added together and divided by the number of factors. The final number is the employees overall performance rating.

**What are your thoughts on this method and rating system?

**If I wanted to move to 4 ratings and use the rating scale method, how do I calculate the scale among these 4 ratings?
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Rating Scale Method for Performance Evaluations

posted at 11/25/2008 8:05 AM EST
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Can you provide us more info on the kinds of employees you're going to be evaluating? Sales, professional, hourly production, etc?
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Rating Scale Method for Performance Evaluations

posted at 11/25/2008 8:27 AM EST
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I have narrowed down all positions into one of 4 categories:

1. Admin (non-technical)

2. Technical (engineers, surveyors, drafters, designers, planners, landscape architects)

3. Project Managers

4. Executives
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Rating Scale Method for Performance Evaluations

posted at 11/25/2008 4:49 PM EST
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Conceptually there is nothing wrong with 4 groups.

Here are my concerns

1. what if there person is so "bad" that almost no amount of "improvement" will solve the problem?
2. do you put everyone that needs improvement on a performance plan? If not then perhaps the 5th level is needed.
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