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EXERCISE 16
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND MERIT PAY AT OLYMPIA DATA DESIGN (ODD)
1. Instrument A
Strengths
1. Easy to obtain (little to no development cost).
3. Relates to employees in a wide variety of jobs.
Weaknesses
1. Instrument dimensions are very general.
3. Open to rater bias.
Instrument B
Strengths
1. Instrument dimensions are very specific.
2. Relates closely to work of incumbent.
Weaknesses
1. Requires considerable job analysis time to develop initially.
2. Expensive to maintain and update unless statements on a computer-based word
processing system.
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2. Instrument A would be most useful in making merit budget allocations if the organization is
3. Instrument A would be an absolute liability in court (see Wade v. Mississippi Cooperative
Extension Service on page 329 of the text). Instrument A is eminently easy to fake, open to bias, and
difficult to document or support.