Contextual factors on raters' competency in the Malaysian public sector

Examining the impacts of personal and contextual factors on raters' competency and compliance to accuracy as mediated by performance appraisal self-efficacy can be an important step to further understand raters' behavior in the context of performance appraisal. Drawing on Bandura's social cognitive theory and vast literature, this study proposed a theoretical model suggesting the impacts of predictor variables such as raters' perceived system knowledge, performance appraisal discomfort, perceived effectiveness of appraisal system, perceived purpose of appraisal results, self-monitoring on raters' competency and compliance to accuracy will be mediated by performance self-efficacy