RATE FROM MEMORY
A manager who knows the employee should not need excessive interference from evidence.
Conduct the annual evaluation using the manager's accumulated impression. Add examples where available and reconstruct the rest from the employee's general reputation. A sufficiently experienced evaluator can convert twelve months of work into one coherent feeling.
Reconstructed Handbook series.
Unfortunately, the research…
Claim
Performance ratings contain large rater-specific components in addition to target performance information; who provides the rating can materially influence the score.
Evidence
Research decomposing multisource performance ratings found substantial idiosyncratic rater variance, challenging the assumption that a rating is a direct readout of a stable underlying performance trait.
Strength: Strong
Sources
The Directive is satire. The research summary is not. Evidence is stated separately and qualified to the underlying literature rather than treated as proof of the joke.