Supervisor esteem and personnel evaluations

Abstract

Personnel evaluations given by 7 pairs of Antarctic station supervisors were analyzed to determine the extent to which such judgments can be affected by the level of esteem at which a supervisor is held. Agreement between supervisors in their evaluations of personnel was not related to the degree of mutual esteem between supervisors and, similarly, the esteem held for supervisors by their subordinate peer group was not related to supervisor-peer agreement in evaluating personnel. Agreement between supervisors was related (p < .05) to the level of esteem held for them by the peer group. Finally, supervisors of different levels of esteem seemed to place similar value on various performance characteristics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)