2 What are the likely consequences for supervisors of a move to using adjectives rather than numbers to describe an employee’s performance? Some organisations are dropping numeric performance rankings in favour of descriptive words. These companies argue that numbers cannot fully capture an employee’s contribution to an organisation.

Read the following short article and then answer the questions below.

Wilkie, D. (2016), ‘Instead of rating performance with numbers, how about adjectives?’, SHRM, July 6, https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-relations/pages/instead-of-rating-performance-with-numbers,-how-about-adjectives.aspx