Organizational Resource Management

39Evolute Approach

is not accurate (Beardwell and Holden 1995), but it is possible to evaluate oneself

with a certain degree of accuracy. The question is whether individuals want to evalu-

ate themselves, and whether they will do it with sufcient care so as to be ben-

ecial. It is acknowledged that self-evaluation is more effective in evaluating the

relation between different items (e.g., Torrington and Hall 1991) than evaluating

work performance or comparing individuals’ performance to that of others (Dessler

2001). This is due to personal bias in seeing one’s own performance as better than

others’. The effectiveness of self-evaluation depends, ...