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It differs from "standard" rating scales in one central respect, in that it focuses on
behaviors that are determined to be important for completing a job task or doing the job
properly, rather than looking at more general employee characteristics e.g. personality,
vague work habits. Employees are also evaluated in terms of critical incidents of behavior
on the job.
Definition
Employee or trainee rating system in which they are graded according to their
display or absence of specific behavioral patterns
An appraisal method that uses quantified scale with specific narrative examples of
good and poor performance
Development of a Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale
. The use of this scale for conducting research on the process of making ethical
performance judgments is discussed. This study behavioral scale for assessing ethical
judgment using the Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) procedure
The behavior criterion has been the most researched topic in performance
appraisal because of its potential to improve the quality of performance ratings. BARS
procedure was used for developing the ethical behavior scale. Incidents dealing with the
same behaviors are grouped to form BARS, which is objectively scored and may involve
either a checklist of behaviors or a rating scale assessing degree of behaviors.
BARS are constructed by the evaluators who will use them. There are four steps
in the BARS construction process:
Advantages of BARS:
Disadvantage of BARS:
Ratings still have inherent flaws, the most notable being that ratings themselves
are not very helpful in helping employees improve performance because too much
information is lost.
Another problem is that there is a tendency for people to believe that BARS
system ratings are objective and that is definitely not the case. Ratings cannot by
definition and by objective.
Conclusion:
This study provides a demonstration of the development of a behavioral scale for ethical
performance using the BARS procedure. I believe that development of such a scale is
necessary for studying process issues involved in ethical judgment process.
Reference:
• http://www.performance-appraisals.org/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=10492
• http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?
&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA195403
• performance-appraisals.org/faq/bars.htm
• www.businessdictionary.com/.../behaviorally-anchored-rating-scale-
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