ABSTRACT
The quote by F. A. Moss in 1927 suggests how important measurement is in the lives of human beings. This belief in the importance of measurement in our daily lives provided the foundation for most of the early work in performance ratings and appraisal. This focus on measurement was operationalized in the work of I-O psychologists. It’s interesting to note that this point was more recently discussed at length in the work of Folger and his colleagues, who argued that performance appraisal developed from what they called “a test metaphor,” which views performance appraisal as a straightforward measurement issue and ignores many of the other contextual issues that have attracted research attention in more recent years (Folger, Konovsky, & Cropanzano, 1992).
