Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Persian Gulf University

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Persian Gulf University

3 Master of Business and Administration , Persian Gulf University

Abstract

Organizations in order to achieve its objectives are looking for the establishment of systems to ensure the enabling environment for productivity increase. One way to increase productivity is selection of qualified staff.Assessment center and the development are including ways that are used with aims of people selection, promotion and education. The staff performance evaluation is performed to survey their behavior, capabilities, growth and prosperity to achieve the organization’s goals. This study aims at showing that data based on the assessment center results (the competency of staff) to what extent offer a significant relationship with the staff performance scores. So, participants of the assessment center were clustered first according to data of the assessment center and   second based on the evaluation of the 360 degree performance. In this study, self-organizing maps have been used for segmentation of people and the data were analyzed by version 5 of Discovery Profiler software. According to Chi 2 agreement test’s results, obtained parts of the performed clustering with two methods, did not show any relationship. But based on correlation coefficient, there is a significant and positive relationship among selected people of the assessment center to develop and evaluate their performance

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