Dear Pam,

Research hypothesis or hypotheses are inline with research question(s) and research objective(s). develop your hypotheses based on that.

you can also develop.......

....First identify the underlining structure of items that make up performance appraisal method scale, than go for your hypothesis or hypotheses. once you know the factors you can link that with organizational performance.

For further clarification kindly find the attached file, link... it may help

http://www.sciencedirect.com.lib1.library.unikl.edu.my/science/article/pii/B9780080970868220345

Hypothesis is the academic assumption... From the L.R related.  you can made this assumption based on your opinion.. Then, this could be your hypothesis between performance appraisal and organizational performance. Key points is you have to fully understand the related previous research.

Hello Ben,

If you are planning to use a quantitative method, identifying your independent and dependent variables will help to define your hypothesis.

I’m thinking the performance appraisal method would be the independent variable and organizational performance would be your dependent variable (organizational performance is dependent upon the type of appraisal method used by the company). You probably want to further define what kind of operational performance … financial performance, customer service, corporate citizenship, employee satisfaction?

But where is your data coming from? I just saw an article about GE moving away from forced ranking. But is there is enough data to compare performance when they used forced ranking versus whatever method they just moved to?

Linda

If your Dependent Variable is Organizational performance and Independent Variable is Forced ranking, then you may construct a hypothesis to state: Ho= Forced ranking performance appraisal negatively affects organizational performance.  H1= Forced ranking performance appraisal positivly affects organizational performance. using Correlation then regression analysis you can find the answers to accept and reject.

Firstly, it depends upon what the existing literature says. Secondly, the use of forced ranking method (which has been considered less effective as compared to MBO) can be compared to other tools in terms of organizational performance. However,  hypothesis construct can be H1: Forced ranking increases the organizational performance. H0= Forced ranking decreases the organizational performance. (or has no effect on organizational performance).

 Dear Ben Wurim Pam,

First you have to clealry define and measure organizational performance, as it can be a wide plethora of meannings. Secondly,  you have to do the same for forced ranking. But globally you can expect that forced ranking will probably produce a central tendency effect, or a halo effect. A moderator hipothesis could be the type of personality of the evaluator.