Are Supervisors Effective Or Unintentional Rating Inflation?

Unfortunately, there are situations in which supervisors have to deal with difficult employees and some employees have called out the report line about their supervisors. However, when it is time for evaluating employee’s performances, supervisors might feel tempted to inflate their rating because they are afraid that if they give them a lower rate is because they are retaliating. Most of the supervisors prefer to give an intentional rating inflation and keep their jobs than given a rate that can end up losing their jobs. Moreover, unintentional rating inflation can occur when supervisors have to evaluate a group of employees in a giving time just to fulfill their deadlines (Aguinis,