The purpose of the current study was to compare estimates of the economic value of workers to their organization obtained from supervisors with those obtained from job incumbents. The measure of value used, SDy, is a utility analysis term which translates workers' performance into dollars and cents. Among a sample of 18 task scientists and 13 of their supervisors, the workers and their supervisors provided substantially and significantly different measures of SDy. This suggests that such estimates obtained from workers and their supervisors not be pooled for analysis.
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