Sophia is a valued employee in your department. She is positive and dependable but lacks ambition and has stagnated in her position this year. She also is consistently late on deadlines, although the work she turns in is usually flawless

Choose one of the performance evaluation methods discussed in the chapter and use it to evaluate the three most popular sets of criteria for Sophia. Explain why your evaluation method is strong or weak and how it could be improved.
What will be an ideal response?

The simplest evaluation method is to write a narrative describing an employee's strengths, weaknesses, past performance, potential, and suggestions for improvement.

The three most popular sets of criteria are individual task outcomes, behaviors, and traits.

Task outcomes: Sophia is a valued employee who consistently turns in high quality work. Her work requires little quality assurance and, therefore, I can rely on Sophia when I know that there will not be a lot of time to recheck the work.

Behaviors: Sophia is dependable in completing her work, although she is often late with the product. She has recently become stagnant in her position and shows little ambition.

Traits: Sophia is a positive and upbeat team player, helping to create a good work environment. And, as I said earlier, she is very dependable at completing her work, although with some delay.

This evaluation is a general evaluation of Sophia, but it is only one person's opinion and depends on the person's ability to express Sophia's strengths and weaknesses. It doesn't provide any methods for improvement and is evaluated on a global job performance, rather than job specificity.