Download or read book Performance Measurement and Theory written by Frank Landy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comments on Hunter -- Knowledge Versus Performance -- Enlarging the Model -- Research on Individual Raters -- 11. Some Possible Implications of "Modeling" for the Conceptualization of Measurement -- A Sermonette -- What is " Modeling?"--What "Performance" is to be Modeled? -- Some Performance-Modeling Possibilities -- Human Factors -- Modeling Decision Making and Problem Solving -- Multivariate Models: Latent Variables and Causal Modeling -- Cognitive Models of the Rater -- Implications for the Study of Job Performance -- Comments -- Modeling Performance -- What Y are We trying to Model? -- What X's are We to Choose to Model? -- What Kind of Function Do We want? -- Do We want to Simply Predict Y? -- Part IV: Sociopolitical Considerations -- 12. Performance Appraisal Under Capitalism, Socialism, and the Mixed Economy -- Capitalism -- Socialism -- The Mixed Economy -- The Military -- Comments -- Reality, Utopia, and Performance Appraisal: Another View -- Reply -- Reply to Lerner -- 13. A Sociohistorical Perspective on Performance Assessment -- Units of Analysis -- Marxism and Organizations -- Employer and Worker, 1916-1922 -- Some Current Parallels -- Comments -- Alternative Theories: Comments on Goldman -- Alternative Theory of Worker Interest -- Alternative Theory of Management Interest in Performance Appraisal -- Alternative Theory of Economic Behavior -- Additional Points of Dispute -- Reply -- Reply to Schmidt -- 14. Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Presentations -- Overlapping Issues -- Propositions -- Author Index -- Subject Index