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Unit 5: Appraising and Evaluating People in the Organization

Notes
Figure 5.3: Ranking Employees Through Paired Comparison Method

Employees Rated A B C D E Final Rank
Performance
Compared with
A * – – + + 3

B + * – + + 2

C + + * + + 1
D – – – * + 4

E – – – – * 5

Note 1: Here, plus (+) sign means the employee is considered better and minus (–) sign
means worse than the other employee in the pair.
Note 2: C gets the highest number of plus signs (4 plus signs) and therefore his rank is the
highest (rank no. 1).
Note 3: E gets the lowest number of plus signs (nil) and therefore his rank is the lowest
(rank no. 5).
The paired comparison method is more reliable but the method is pot suitable when large
number of employees is to be evaluated.
Man-to-Man Comparison Method

In man-to-man comparison method, the performance of an employee is evaluated by obtaining
ratings about his performance from the evaluators. A team of evaluators is involved in
giving ratings to the employee performance. Each member of the team gives the appropriate
ratings, lowest, low, middle, high and highest performers, to the employees. These ratings
are then used to determine the appraisal procedure for a particular employee. The main
benefit of this method is that the ratings are based on the real performance of the employees.
However, the drawback of this technique is that the ratings given by each evaluator may
not be consistent because each evaluator has his or her own scaling criteria making it
difficult to evaluate an employee’s performance correctly.
Grading Method

Under this technique of performance evaluation certain categories of worth are determined
in advance and they are carefully defined. These selected and well-defined categories include

Grade ‘A’ for outstanding
Grade ‘B’ for very good
Grade ‘C’ for average

Grade ‘D’ for poor, etc.
These grades are based on certain selected features such as knowledge, judgment, analytical
ability, leadership qualities, self-expression, etc. The actual performance of employees is

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