AUTHOR=Tziner Aharon , Levy Shlomit TITLE=Examination of Performance Appraisal Behavior Structure JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2016 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02075 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02075 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=Abstract The personality (dispositional) characteristics, attitudes, beliefs, and orientation of 498 managers and military officers toward performance appraisal and organization were collected in an attempt to examine their structural relationships to rating behavior (i.e. mean ratings and measures of performance dimensions discrimination and rate discrimination). A mapping sentence comprising a modality, a reference group and an aspect (content) facet were used. On the whole, the empirical results confirmed this definitional system. Moreover, a polarizing partition of the space into three regions – Self (rater), Ratee, and Organization/System – was found, possibly implying that these three considerations are equally proximal in determining rater behavior. Future directions for research are advanced.