Under this system, the rater does not evaluate an employee’s performance. He supplies report information about it and the final rating is done by the personnel department.
A series of questions are presented concerning an employee to his behaviour. The rater then checks to indicate if the to question about an employee is positive or negative. The value of each question may be valued/weighed equally or certain questions may be weighed heavily than others
This method suffers from bias on the part of rater because he can distinguish positive and negative question Secondly, a separate check list must be developed for different classes of jobs which is a time consuming and expensive process. Thirdly, it is difficult to assemble, analyse and weigh a number or statements about employee’s characteristics and contributions.