NEW FITNESS REPORT FORM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000700030059-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: January 7, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2000/08/16 _ 899 0007000309-2
7 January 1959
25X1A9a
TO
Deputy Director of Personnel for Planning and Development
SUBJECT New Fitness Report Form
1. It is very late in the day for a member of your task force
to find fault with the new fitness report form, but now that the returns
are beginning to come in I find that one small point calls for comment.
2. In Section D, rating No. 4 runs into the same trouble we
have always had in the past, of supervisors' inability to make meaningful
use of the word "average. " We shall soon find that about 90% of the
people in the outfit are "above average" in most qualities. Sections B
and C avoid this difficulty by rating the individual in terms of the require-
ments of his job, not inc omparison with large numbers of individuals 11 which most supervisors are unable to make. I am sure that most
supervisors will mean by a 4 under Section D just what they would mean
by a 4 under Section C, and that there is no harm in giving large numbers
of people such a rating.
3. The way to avoid the statistical impossibility of rating
everybody above average and to give the 4 more meaning is to change the
wording slightly. I suggest that D 3 should read "satisfactory degree"
and D 4 "better than satisfactory."
4. There seems to be general agreement that the new fitness
report form is a splendid improvement over the old.
25X1A9a
Chief, SE Division
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