THE LINEAR-PROGRAMMING ALTERNATIVE TO POLICY CAPTURING FOR ELICITING CRITERIA WEIGHTS IN THE PERFORMANCE-APPRAISAL PROCESS

An important aspect of management is the periodic performance appraisa l (PA) of subordinates. This paper focuses on inferring the criteria e mployed and weights attached to them by an assessor in any PA process. Linear programming (LP) is proposed as an alternative to policy captu ring (PC) as the inference mechanism. The LP approach is illustrated a nd contrasted with regression-based PC approaches. We show that, at a minimum, LP provides facilitating inputs to complement PC.