Jim,an operating manager at a financial services firm,is conducting a performance appraisal of the employees in his department,ranking them from the most to the least valuable.He lists the names of the employees to be rated on the left side of a sheet of paper.Then he chooses the most valuable employee on the list,crosses that name off the left-hand list,and puts it at the top of the column on the right-hand side of the paper.Next,he selects and crosses off the name of the least valuable employee from the left-hand column and moves it to the bottom of the right-hand column.Jim repeats this process for all of the names on the left-hand side of the paper.The resulting list of names in the right-hand column gives a ranking of the employees from most to least valuable.Identify the ranking method Jim is using.

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Jim is using an alternation ranking method where he alternates between the most valuable and least valuable employees until all the employees are ranked. Jim's method does not involve comparing employees to one another (paired comparison ranking) or forcing a distribution of rankings (forced distribution). Central tendency distribution involves assuming that most employees are average and giving similar ratings, which is not what Jim is doing.

Jim,an Operating Manager at a Financial Services Firm,is Conducting a Performance