A performance review system in which all employees within a business unit are ranked against one another is known as a
A. standard curve.
B. normal distribution.
C. performance positioning.
D. forced ranking.
E. unit grading.
D. forced ranking.
In forced ranking performance review systems, all employees within a business unit are ranked against one another and grades are distributed along some sort of bell curve.
You might also like to view...
All of the following are characteristics of a production report except:
a. It includes the number of units completed during the period. b. It includes the costs incurred by the department during the period. c. It includes the number of units in ending work-in-process and the estimated stage of completion. d. The department manager completes the report on a monthly basis.
Under Armour's recent expansion into the digital personal health and fitness tracking market through acquisitions of three fitness app companies is a ________ strategy
A) market penetration B) market development C) downsizing D) diversification E) product development
The following information is available from the financial statements of Barrington Corporation for the year ended December 31 . 2014: Net income .......................................... $396,000 Depreciation expense ................................ 102,000 Decrease in accounts receivable ..................... 126,000 Increase in inventories ............................. 90,000 Increase in
accounts payable ........................ 24,000 Payment of dividends ................................ 54,000 Purchase of available-for-sale securities ........... 22,000 Decrease in income taxes payable .................... 16,000 What is Barrington Corporation's net cash flow from operating activities? a. $440,000 b. $466,000 c. $520,000 d. $542,000
Which statement about performance measures is false?
a. The addition of new product features is an example of a qualitative market based performance measurement. b. Increase in revenue is a financial market based measure. c. Reduction in product costs is a financial cost based performance measure. d. Customer satisfaction is a human resource performance measure.