Test drives
By Ian Florance (October 2007 Issue)
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Men tend to rate their own performance on a job better than other people rate them; women’s ratings tend to be similar to other people’s judgments.
People with low self-esteem judge themselves more harshly than people with high self-esteem. These factors, among others, led to the development of 360° appraisals in the Sixties, and its use in the USA in the Seventies.
Filling in a questionnaire about yourself often causes the comment ‘it’s just your biased opinion’; 360° instruments address this directly.
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