The Effect of Managers’ Mindset on their Employees’ Performance Appraisal

ABSTRACT: The world of business is constantly changing and experiencing a continuous expansion path due to globalization. This urges business people to look for and get new opportunities, but also confronts them to a serious challenge from competitors. The assessment of their efficiency goes through some various performances checks like market shares from outputs sold or provided, net profit earned or return on investments. Among those criteria of performance, there is also the non-negligible human capital performance without which the previous could not be possible. This is usually the responsibility of managers and supervisors to assess the employees’ effectiveness. However there is an issue of objectivity and accuracy in the process of the performance appraisal and it is worthy to explore on it. The present study investigates on how a manager’s mindset can influence his appraisal effectiveness. Mindset is a personal belief about the fixedness or malleability of human attributes. Thus holding either a fixed or a growth mindset may be a factor in causing inconsistencies in the perception, judgment and evaluation of a performance. The current study proposed some satisfactorily empirical results and thus contribute to the existing literature of related topics and made some implications for managers, policy makers as well as the society in general. Keywords: managers, mindset, performance appraisal, I/O psychology, human resource management. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………