Capturing the Policy That Air Force Raters Use When Writing Performance Appraisals on Junior Officers

<p>This study examined the relationship between four dimensions of performance leadership task performance interpersonal facilitation and job dedication and overall performance by junior officers in the Air Force. It was hypothesized that the four dimensions would have different relative importance to overall performance ratee gender would have no effect on rating policy and raters with greater experience would show greater rating consistency. Finally it was hypothesized that the Conscientiousness factor of the International Personality Inventory Protocol and Positive and Negative Affectivity may be correlated with the relative importance of the four dimensions of performance and a rater leniency measure and that significant prediction models could be developed. For the entire sample and a sub sample of Majors-and-above leadership was the most important dimension. The other dimensions task performance interpersonal facilitation and job dedication were equally important yet less important than leadership. For Captains and below all dimensions were equally important. There was no significant gender effect on ratings but there was evidence that experience is positively related to consistency of ratings for Majors and above. Neither Conscientiousness nor Positive and Negative Affectivity could be used to develop a significant prediction model for the importance of behavior dimensions or rater leniency.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>