intentionally and unintentionally

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1. Discuss the factors that may intentionally and unintentionally cause rating inflation.

2. Response to one student- Bradley

Before I discuss the factors that may intentionally and unintentionally in some cases cause rating inflation, I will first expand on the idea of rating inflation and describe it in more detail. Rating inflation normally occurs in a rating system where the average rating the person or party being evaluated increases over time with no real changes occurring just a natural progression so to speak in the scoring scale (Heyman & Sailors, 2011). Essentially, this means that if a person rates at a 90 for example, a person that may rake as a 90 in the future may not necessarily be as strong as the person who is presently receiving this score for their performance, but that the inflation of the scoring critique has occurred. When considering performance management this brings an interesting aspect to consider. Performance management is general is done differently throughout many different industries and organizations and can be affected by many different things including biases based upon many different such as relationships between the people involved, past experiences, and many other things(Slaughter & Greguras, 2008).There is many factors and potential causes of inflated ratings that can occur within a organization rating system which could be either intentional or unintentional. Some factors could include factors such as motivation to improve performance of the employee, could be a reason to reduce work for the manager such as inflating performance to reduce perceived work needed with employee, to improve the overall rating with an organization such as a regional ranking or something to that effect, budget control, and many others. The problem with rating inflation is that it occurs frequently throughout many years, it cause many issues for the organizations, including a staff of underperformers, or lack of production and an unhealthy culture within an workplace that includes employees attempting to do just enough to get by instead of being motivated to further increase their production or performance(Lee, 2019). I have personally seen this in action a few different times and in my case, it was a form of budget control that influenced the performance management structure. Essentially the majority of the employees fell into the average group normally around 90% of the employees, and the outlines the top 5% and low 5% required in depth review to process the review so essentially that process was avoided by the management staff in most cases to prevent the extra work and help control the raises the employees would receive based upon the review they were given.