The term refers to the effect and action of rating. Qualifying means evaluating the way in which a thing or a person to carry out some activity and based on this determine the qualities, capacities and aptitudes to be used in some specific activity, estimating or weighing their performance.
The qualification is given by an appreciation or estimate in the way of doing things. For many, the rating is given in a subjective way. However, there are cases where the rating is given objectively, that is, following patterns or rules for weighting.
The latter can be seen in the grade or grade, which assesses and categorizes the school performance of the students, where they are governed by corroborating that the foregoing and explained has actually been received by the individual in question. In this way, on many occasions the subjective qualification is set aside, taking into account only the objective one, in cases such as mathematics and chemistry, where exercises are carried out, which are precise and who is going to be qualified must obey what it was explained to him.
In the workplace, the use of what the rating represents is also managed, offering weights to workers on a greater or lesser scale, according to their performance during the time it was taken to be evaluated. Regarding this, the famous professor at the University of Chicago, American statistician, economist and intellectual, Milton Friedman, said that "the qualification does not belong to the man, but to the job." Through that little sentence he proposes a revolutionary concept to see things, an innovative one and not widely accepted by many.
Friedman proposed with the aforementioned, that a person should not be qualified by his training time, but by his technical competence, his position on a prestigious scale or responsibility in production.
Although there are several currents that seek to define the qualification in the workplace, the reality is that said qualification is subjective and must respond to an ethical commitment and in response to the agreements or agreements that have been established between the employee and the employer.
Finally, the rating can be applied in different ways and in different moments or situations in everyday life. That is why qualifying a thing or a person simply means defining it in some way.
