Many businesses are moving away from traditional year-end reviews or appraisals at work. Year-end reviews can cause hard feelings between employees and employers or managers when criticism is involved ...

Performance reviews are a cornerstone of effective team management, offering an opportunity to provide constructive feedback, recognize achievements, and establish goals for the future. Well-crafted ...

Goal-based performance appraisal techniques use quantitative performance management indicators to determine how well an employee is performing against the group, or against goals set by management.

Lots of people assume that managers just know how to do this stuff,’ says academic explaining that manager training and timing are as important in performance reviews as metrics and ratings ...

It's that time of year again. The time in the business world where managers and employees face, often with anxiety, year-end performance appraisals. The managerial challenge? How to make these ...

Yes, it’s that time of year again -- when the groans of managers can be heard over the mere mention of the words, “Annual Performance Reviews.” Many managers see performance appraisals as nothing more ...

Performance appraisals shouldn't be closed-door meetings in which you lay out your employees' faults. Conducted properly, appraisals can actually help build better relationships with your staff ...

Self-evaluation is a necessary component of being successful — both in the corporate, professional sense and in terms of personal growth. All employees have to fill out a performance evaluation at ...

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If your departments are complaining about performance appraisals, then they are not alone. NPR reports that stats from CEB, a research firm blog, indicate that 83 percent of human resource (HR) ...