中華心理學刊 民 83，36 卷，2 期，107-119
Chinese Journal of Psychology 1994, Vol.36, No.2, 107-119

Chi-Sum Wong（Department of Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong）；F. David Schoorman（Krannert Graduate School of Management Purdue University）

Abstract

Reveiewers of Performance appraisal studies have concluded that the greatest need for future research on performance appraisal was on contextual factors and on the rating process. This research investigated the effects of irrelevant information on performance appraisals. Specifically, conformity behaviors which were irrelevant to performance were manipulated in an exploratory experiment. Potential effects of raters' values towards conformity behaviors were explored by comparing the American and Chinese subjects. Two hundred Hong Kong and 152 American business majors participated in an experiment. Results showed that both the American and Hong Kong raters would be affected by the conformity information even when these information were irrelevant to performance. However, contrary to our expectation, the effect of conformity information was greater for the American rather than for Hong Kong raters. Implications for future research were discussed.

Keywords：Performance appraisal, Irrelevant information, Conformity behaviors