In recent years, there has been a concern of grade inflation within academia. Do you think a case could be made for performance appraisals being inflated? Why or why not.

I have been involved in the discussion as an educator of grade inflation within academia and educators having performance appraisals inflated. In the field of education I would agree with both of these statements, but in the business arena I have not experience the same inflation. As a teacher I would be evaluated every year for my first two years and then every other year after I received seniority. Being evaluated consisted of having my principal come in twice during the year and observe a lesson. My student’s grades nor their success or failure were included in my evaluation. When I joined the business world and started being evaluated it was a stark contrast. I was evaluated on my job performance and my results. It was no longer good enough to do a good job I had to accomplish something while doing a good job. My marketing metrics were taken in to account of my total job performance.