There are many ways employees can be evaluated, and they are explored fully in the textbook. In the most basic terms, evaluations come down to systems that rank employees against each other, or systems that evaluate employees against a set of desirable attributes. Both systems have their pluses and minuses.
In what types of jobs do you think a ranking system would give you the best evaluation results? And in what types of jobs do you think evaluating attributes would give you the best results