HRM2602
Human Resource Maintenance and Retention
Department of Human Resource Management
Assignment 01 for Semester 02 (compulsory)
Unique Number 886149
Due: 11 August 2020
7.1 Prescribed book
There is one prescribed book for HRM2602: Wärnich, S, Carrell, M.R, Elbert N.F & Hatfield, R.
D. (2018). Human Resource Management in South Africa. 6th edition. Boston: Cengage. (ISBN:
978-1-4737-5112-5)
DO NOT use previous editions of this book – make sure you purchase the sixth edition.
Question 1
Tau is an HR officer in a small food packaging company. He is conducting performance
appraisals (PA’s) of the employees. Tau has decided to make the PA’s more job-related than
was the case previously. He collects information about job behaviour from the employees’
supervisors and colleagues, using a list of actual job experiences compiled by both the
employees and supervisors.
Choose the correct category of PA and the specific PA method Tau is using.
1. work standards; essay method
2. comparative method; ranking
3. behavioural method; critical incidents
4. narrative method; critical incidents
The correct answer is option 4.
To answer this question, you had to study section 9.7 of chapter 9.
The narrative method uses critical incidents, where the rater keeps a written record of
highly favourable and highly unfavourable employee behaviours. These incidents are then
Human Resource Maintenance and Retention
Department of Human Resource Management
Assignment 01 for Semester 02 (compulsory)
Unique Number 886149
Due: 11 August 2020
7.1 Prescribed book
There is one prescribed book for HRM2602: Wärnich, S, Carrell, M.R, Elbert N.F & Hatfield, R.
D. (2018). Human Resource Management in South Africa. 6th edition. Boston: Cengage. (ISBN:
978-1-4737-5112-5)
DO NOT use previous editions of this book – make sure you purchase the sixth edition.
Question 1
Tau is an HR officer in a small food packaging company. He is conducting performance
appraisals (PA’s) of the employees. Tau has decided to make the PA’s more job-related than
was the case previously. He collects information about job behaviour from the employees’
supervisors and colleagues, using a list of actual job experiences compiled by both the
employees and supervisors.
Choose the correct category of PA and the specific PA method Tau is using.
1. work standards; essay method
2. comparative method; ranking
3. behavioural method; critical incidents
4. narrative method; critical incidents
The correct answer is option 4.
To answer this question, you had to study section 9.7 of chapter 9.
The narrative method uses critical incidents, where the rater keeps a written record of
highly favourable and highly unfavourable employee behaviours. These incidents are then
