Performance appraisal process and system facets: Relationships with contextual performance

Because appraisal-related interactions between supervisors and employees ma y influence more than task performance, the authors considered the potentia l effects of social and interpersonal processes in performance appraisal on contextual performance. They hypothesized that performance appraisal proce ss and system facets were associated with employees' contextual performance as well as with their perceptions of appraisal accuracy. After controlling relevant variables, they found that appraisal process facets explained var iance in contextual performance and perceived accuracy beyond that accounte d for by the system facets. However, when the order of entry for the proces s and system variable sets was reversed, only for perceived appraisal accur acy, as hypothesized, did the system facets account for variance beyond tha t explained by the appraisal process facets.