Graphic rating scales

Graphic rating scales

• This format is considered the oldest and most popular method to assess the employee’s performance.
• In this style of performance appraisal, the management just simply does checks on the performance levels of their staff

Advantages of the rating scales

• Graphic rating scales are less time consuming to develop.
• They also allow for quantitative comparison.

Disadvantages of the rating scales

• Different supervisors will use the same graphic scales in slightly different ways.
• One way to get around the ambiguity inherent in graphic rating scales is to use behavior based scales, in which specific work related behaviors are assessed.
• More validity comparing workers ratings from a single supervisor than comparing two workers who were rated by different supervisors.