Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Forced Distribution Method 
As there is a tendency to rank many of the employees high, forced 
distribution method has been adopted. In this method, the appraiser is 
forced to appraise the appraisees according to the pattern of a normal 
curve.  The basic assumption in this method is that the employee’s 

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performance confirms to a normal statistical distribution. For example 
10 percent of the employees may be rated as excellent, 20 per cent as above 
average, 40 per cent as average, 20 per cent below average and 10 per cent 
as poor.  The basic advantage of this method is that it overcomes the 
problem of adopting a central tendency of rating most of the employees 
to a point, particularly high or near high to appease them.