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    The document discusses the bell curve model used in employee performance appraisals. It describes how the bell curve ranks employees into top 20%, average 70%, and bottom 10% categories based on a normal distribution. Advantages are said to include bringing objectivity and helping identify high and low performers. However, the document also lists some faulty assumptions of the bell curve, such as the ideas that cognitive ability is a single trait determined by genetics and that IQ tests accurately measure intelligence without bias.

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    Bell Curve & Its Application in Employee Performance Appraisal: A Critical Analysis

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    Bell curve & its Application in Employee Performance Appraisal : A Critical Analysis

    Bell or Vitality Curve


    The Normal Distribution

    Curve is used as tool in measuring human capacities, Pioneered by the leader Jack Welch former CEO of GE It is a differentiation tool used to assess an employees performance and promotability Jack called it as Vitality Curve'. Also known as - Dead mans Curve - Forced ranking - Rank and yank - Up or Out

    Grading the curve


    The employee force is ranked into a 20-70-10 bucket

    70% Vital or average

    20%
    Excellent

    10%
    Bottom feeder

    Illustration ..

    9 Block: Further Segmentation of Employee population

    Check , where do you place yourself in this matrix !!!!!!!!!!!

    Alleged Advantages of Bell Curve


    Brings objectivity to the Performance Appraisal Normalization of the appraisal process Predict performance patterns Guides for uniform rating process/pattern

    Helps in planned attrition and in predicting promotions/job enlargements/job enrichments/rewards/incentives.


    Identifies high performers for commensurate rewards

    Identifies low/weak performers for training/forced attrition

    Bell Curve & Intelligence Quotient (IQ)


    The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by American psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American political scientist Charles Murray

    Intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors

    Predictor of many personal dynamics, including financial income, job performance, chance of unwanted pregnancy, and involvement in crime than are an individual's parental socioeconomic status, or education level

    Faulty Assumptions for Bell Curve


    Human Cognitive ability is a single general entity Cognitive ability has a heritability of between 40 and 80 percent and is primarily genetically based IQ is essentially immutable, fixed over the course of a life span IQ tests measure how "smart" or "intelligent" people are and are capable of rank ordering people in a linear order IQ tests can measure this accurately IQ tests are not biased with regard to race, ethnic group or socioeconomic status

    IQ predicts poverty much better than socioeconomic status

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