When asked about their opinion concerning optimal timing of performance assessment, 49% answered that it should be annual and 41% who thought it should be twice a year. Some 61.7% of employees had met expectations in their last performance assessment, while 27.0% had exceeded expectations and 1.7% had excelled; another 9.1% had failed to meet expectations or had required improvements of some sort. The hypotheses selected for testing, which are displayed below, were converted into null format and then tested with the simplest possible statistical procedure, which involved chi-square cross-tabulations.