Estudo de validade do instrumento de avaliação de desempenho por competências – Mérito

Abstract

On the present scenario, many are the difficulties faced by institutions, so much when it comes to development and commitment from their workers as their permanence in a competitive and unstable market. Management professional’s challenge is to build up ways to motivate, compromise, train and evaluate their employees for efficiency in the doing of their activities. The psychology, in this context, contributes in the making of tools that assist the evaluation processes that look for the appreciation and growth of their professionals. Based on such presumptions, this study aimed for the validity study of the “Merit Instrument”, through a 360º development evaluation by competence with management and non-management staff of three companies of small, medium and big size from Manaus/AM. This instrument evaluated the professionals through this appraisal, tracing profiles from all their development. Studies about human development in organizations were used as academic reference, just as development evaluations by competence, people’s management in organizations and the insertion of psychology in this context. The data gathering happened in the time space of January and March of 2018, with the use of the Merit Instrument on the company’s professionals, employees from both sexes took part. The quantitative descriptive methodology was used and the data analysis was done with the Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version (17.0). With the obtained results, improving the Merit Instrument was possible and prove its validity for admeasurement of professionals’ competences in organizations, and describe the performances from the ones who answered the research, and still providing to all of them a reliable view of their achievements on the working environment. The study also revealed the significance of evaluating instruments that consider the Brazilian worker’s profile.