Keeping lies out of the performance appraisal.
Industrial Management › Vol. 34 Nbr. 1, January 1992
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Keeping lies out of the performance appraisal.
In their book, How to Lie With Statistics, Huff and Geis note three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics. They describe how people can use statistics to mislead others. Within the context of human resource management, we believe there are lies, damn lies and performance appraisals. Using these same ideas, one can show how performance appraisals can misrepresent reality (lie).
A lie is an untrue statement made with the intent to deceive. A misrepresentation is intentionally or unintentionally serving incorrect information. Therefore, a lie is always a misrepresentation while a misrepresentation is a lie only when incorrect informa...See the full content of this document
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