“…Dozens of conceptualizations of what can and should be measured within an individual performance system have been put forth in the literature and in practice (five-, four-, three-, two-point rating scales; competency based, production based, objective based, task based, behavior based, etc. ; e.g., Benson, Buckley, & Hall, 1988;Bommer, Johnson, Rich, Podsakoff, & MacKenzie, 1995;Borman, 1979;Catano, Darr, & Campbell, 2007;Fay & Latham, 1982;Goffin, Jelley, Powell, & Johnston, 2009;Jelley & Goffin, 2001;Johnson, 2001;Latham, Fay, & Saari, 1979;Thompson & Thompson, 1985;Tziner & Kopelman, 2002). Irrespective of the manner in which evaluations happen, judgments are made and decisions about rewards and roles in the future are based on those judgments.…”