Overall Scale Warning

When more than one scale is created and one of the scales has been indicated as the Overall Scale, a warning will display beneath the scale that may have reporting issues.

This warning indicates that if items assigned to be rated by this scale are compared to items ranked by the overall scale, there is not a one-to-one correlation and the comparison may be affected. For example, if one scale has an upper limit of five (5) and another scale has an upper limit of three (3), there is no means of correctly comparing an appraisal using the five-point scale and an appraisal using the three-point scale. When the system calculates these scores to determine an employee’s potential, the result may be skewed.