TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1. Performance standards have to be identified before performance criteria can be determined. 2. Typical criteria are either behaviours or outcomes, not attitudes. 3. Criterion contamination occurs when aspects of performance, which should have been measured, have not in fact been assessed. 4. As a new hire “learns the ropes†on the job, performance criteria may undergo review and change. 5. The assessment of a physician’s performance is more likely to be beset with problems of criterion deficiency than criterion contamination. 6. The time frame used for evaluating a production worker should be different from that used for a human resource professional working in the same organization. 7. Reliability of a criterion refers to the correspondence between the measure and organization’s ultimate goals. 8. The ability of a performance appraisal instrument to separate superior and poor performers in a garment-sewing factory reflects the discriminability of the measure. 9.              If more than one person holds a particular job it is called a position. 10. A key step in the job analysis process is familiarization with the organization and its jobs.