Using Expectancy Theory to Predict Rating Inflation
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We used an expectancy theory framework to predict rating inflation. Managers (N=106) provided confidential ratings of subordinates as well as measures of rating goals, valences and instrumentalities. Rating inflation (operationalized in terms of differences between confidential ratings and public ratings obtained from personnel files) varied as a function of ratee performance levels, with higher levels of inflation when confidential ratings indicated that the ratee was a poor performer.
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