TY - JOUR
T1 - The moderating influence of job performance dimensions on convergence of supervisory and peer ratings of job performance
T2 - Unconfounding construct-level convergence and rating difficulty
AU - Viswesvaran, Chockalingam
AU - Schmidt, Frank L.
AU - Ones, Deniz S.
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - Meta-analysis was used to cumulate the correlations between supervisor and peer ratings for different dimensions of job performance. The general pattern in the data suggested that raters from the same organizational level disagree as much as raters from different levels. Methods were used to separate the effects of rating difficulty and lack of construct-level convergence on the correlation between supervisor and peer ratings. The authors found complete construct-level convergence for ratings of overall job performance, productivity, effort, job knowledge, quality, and leadership but not for ratings of administrative competence, interpersonal competence, and compliance or acceptance of authority. Higher rating difficulty was more strongly associated with lower mean observed peer-supervisor correlations than were construct-level disagreements between peers and supervisors. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
AB - Meta-analysis was used to cumulate the correlations between supervisor and peer ratings for different dimensions of job performance. The general pattern in the data suggested that raters from the same organizational level disagree as much as raters from different levels. Methods were used to separate the effects of rating difficulty and lack of construct-level convergence on the correlation between supervisor and peer ratings. The authors found complete construct-level convergence for ratings of overall job performance, productivity, effort, job knowledge, quality, and leadership but not for ratings of administrative competence, interpersonal competence, and compliance or acceptance of authority. Higher rating difficulty was more strongly associated with lower mean observed peer-supervisor correlations than were construct-level disagreements between peers and supervisors. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1037/0021-9010.87.2.345
DO - 10.1037/0021-9010.87.2.345
M3 - Article
C2 - 12002962
AN - SCOPUS:0036333574
SN - 0021-9010
VL - 87
SP - 345
EP - 354
JO - Journal of Applied Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Psychology
IS - 2
ER -