Familiarity with Subordinates' Jobs: Immediate versus Secondary Supervisors.
Abstract
A test was made of the hypothesis that only immediate supervisors know enough about their subordinates' job activities to render job performance ratings. Pairs of supervisors who rated the quality of performance of Supply airmen had identified themselves as immediate supervisors and other-than-immediate supervisors. These pairs, working independently, rated the same airmen on how well they performed individual tasks. Each supervisor was asked to rate each task that he was sure the subordinate did, but he was not told which tasks the subordinate had identified. The selections of tasks were tallied against the responses made by the incumbents on the same inventory. An incumbent's responses were relative time spent ratings. Tasks were classified by a scale of percent time spent, and two supervisory levels were compared in terms of percentage of tallies ('agreements') with the incumbents.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA015758
Entities
People
- Llwellyn N. Willey
Organizations
- Brooks Air Force Base