Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Employees are constantly making decisions and judgments that have the potential to affect themselves, their families, their work organizations, and on some occasion even the broader societies in which they live. A few examples include: deciding which job applicant to hire, setting a production goal, judging one’s level of job satisfaction, deciding to steal from the cash register, agreeing to help organize the company’s holiday party, forecasting corporate tax rates two years later, deciding to report a coworker for sexual harassment, and predicting the level of risk inherent in a new business venture. In other words, a great many topics of interest to organizational researchers ultimately reduce to decisions made by employees. Yet, numerous entreaties notwithstanding, industrial and organizational psychologists typically have not incorporated a judgment and decision-making perspective in their research. The current book begins to remedy the situation by facilitating cross-pollination between the disciplines of organizational psychology and decision-making. The book describes both laboratory and more “naturalistic” field research on judgment and decision-making, and applies it to core topics of interest to industrial and organizational psychologists: performance appraisal, employee selection, individual differences, goals, leadership, teams, and stress, among others. The book also suggests ways in which industrial and organizational psychology research can benefit the discipline of judgment and decision-making. The authors of the chapters in this book conduct research at the intersection of organizational psychology and decision-making, and consequently are uniquely positioned to bridging the divide between the two disciplines.
Keywords
decision making, judgment, performance appraisal
Discipline
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Judgement and Decision Making at Work
Editor
Scott Highhouse, Reeshad S. Dalal & Eduardo Salas
First Page
13
Last Page
36
ISBN
9780415886864
Publisher
Routledge
City or Country
New York
Citation
Reb, Jochen, Gary Greguras, Luan Shenghua, and Micael A. Daiels. 2013. "Performance Appraisals as Heuristic Judgments Under Uncertainty." In Judgment and Decision Making at Work, edited by Scott Highhouse, Reeshad S. Dalal and Eduardo Salas, 13-36. New York: Routledge.
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Additional URL
https://worldcat.org/isbn/9780415886864