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narrative method

Performance appraisal method in which the appraiser uses a narrative format to write and record observations and assessments of each employee's performance.

National Industrial Recovery Act, 1933

A law that guaranteed laborers the right to organize and bargain collectively (Title I). The Act also established that employees could not be required, as a condition of employment, to join or refrain from joining a labor organization. In May of 1935, the National Industrial Recovery Act was held unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court (Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States). Although this decision was wholly unrelated to labor and collective bargaining, the Supreme Court decision rendered the labor-related provisions illegal, ...