title: Examination of Performance Appraisal Behavior Structure.
abstract: The personality (dispositional) characteristics, attitudes, beliefs, and orientation of 498 managers and military officers toward performance appraisal and organization were collected in order to examine their structural relationships to raters' behavior, in terms of (a) mean appraisal ratings, (b) measures of performance dimensions discrimination, and (c) rate discrimination. A mapping sentence comprising a modality, a reference group, and an aspect (content) facet were used. The empirical results largely confirmed this definitional system. Moreover, a polarizing partition of the space into three regions-Self (rater), Ratee, and Organization/System-was found, possibly implying that these three considerations are equally proximal in determining rater behavior. Future directions for research are advanced.
authors.affiliation: Netanya Academic College-Schools of Behavioral Studies and Business Administration Neatly, Israel.
authors.forename: Aharon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tziner
authors.affiliation: Department of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew University in Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Shlomit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Levy
keywords: attitudes; beliefs; facet analytic approach; facet theory; mapping sentence; performance appraisal behavior; personality