IMPACT OF RATER BELIEFS REGARDING PERFORMANCE-APPRAISAL AND ITS ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT ON APPRAISAL QUALITY

The relationship between attitudes and beliefs regarding performance a ppraisal and its organizational context and three measures of rating q uality (i.e., rating level, discrimination among ratees, discriminatio n among rating dimensions) were examined. Eighteen of twenty-four dire ctional predictions about the correlations between attitudinal measure s and rating behavior measures were supported. However, because of the expected weak to moderate relationships between predictors and criter ia and the use of small samples, statistical power was generally low, and many of the individual observed correlations failed to reach signi ficance. Nevertheless, the consistent pattern of support for the direc tional predictions suggests that the attitudes and beliefs studied her e provide a useful basis for understanding performance appraisal behav iors.