A Calibration Maturity Index for Performance-Review Ratings
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement scores 156 performance-review calibration sessions across 52 business units of a professional-services firm against a five-level maturity index, then checks attained level against an independent panel's blind re-scoring of the underlying employee evidence. Level shows no meaningful relationship to rating accuracy even as session length and paperwork climb sharply, and the partner firm has begun setting bonus-pool multipliers from the level alone.
| Authors | Dagny Okafor, Casimir Beng, Bram Ntuli |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.oi3m67 |
| Pages | 4 |
| Cited by | 3 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_oi3m67,
author = {Dagny Okafor and Casimir Beng and Bram Ntuli},
title = {CMI: A Calibration Maturity Index for Performance-Review Ratings},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.oi3m67},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-calibration-maturity-oi3m67/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}