Performance Appraisal: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges

Test Yourself

This section offers ten multiple-choice questions to help you identify your baseline knowledge of the essentials of performance appraisal. Answers to the questions are given at the end of the test.

1. Complete this sentence: “Performance appraisals are part of a larger system of performance management that includes ______ and ______.”
   1. Setting goals and conducting periodic informal and formal reviews.
   2. Developing specific short-term and long-term objectives.
   3. Team vision and organizational strategies.
2. How frequently should you conduct a formal performance appraisal for each employee?
   1. Every three months.
   2. At least once every eighteen months (six fiscal quarters).
   3. At least once a year.
3. Which of the following statements about performance ...