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Average Performance Rating
Mean performance rating across all employees
How it’s computed
AVG(performance_rating)
What the evidence shows
Evidence (effect sizes, priors, validity) is syncing from Principia.
Run it on your data
This metric is computed in the People Analytics Toolbox on your own numbers. See pricing — posted, no quotes.
sources: toolbox:metrics-catalog
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“This means the rating isn’t reliable. And if she gets a 3.3 when she’s really a 3.2, then the rating also isn’t valid—it doesn’t reflect reality.” The ratings, therefore, really should have been, as Megan put it, “banded by error,” meaning that we should have told people, “Jim,…”
— Work Rules! (Laszlo Bock)match 57%
“Teams that are grossly out of alignment stand out, and the few major initiatives that touch everyone are easy enough to manage directly. So far, so good! Measuring performance Until 2013, every Googler received a performance rating score at the end of each quarter. The 41-point…”
— Work Rules! (Laszlo Bock)match 57%
“Many organizations today favor not only fewer performance rating levels, but also nonquantified ratings systems. Although it may be tempting to view performance management as an objective and precise process that can be weighted and scored, in most cases it is a subjective…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 56%
Resources: Work Rules! (Laszlo Bock) · Worldatwork Handbook Compensation