1. Appraisal and its place in performance management -- 2. The aims of appraisal : organisational and individual perspectives -- 3. Performance -- 4. Assessing performance, the person and the situation -- 5. Designing appraisal systems -- 6. Appraising, identifying and developing potential -- 7....

Many researchers and journals place a strong emphasis on the sign and statistical significance of effects—but often there is very little emphasis on the substantive and practical significance of the findings. As Long and Freese (2006, Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using...

Allison (1999) notes that comparisons of logit and probit coefficients across groups can be invalid and misleading, proposes a procedure by which these problems can be corrected, and argues that ``routine use [of this method] seems advisable'' and that ``it is hard to see how [the method] can be...