Performance appraisals are one component of a performance management system for employers to ensure employees are meeting the company's expectations. They are measuring tools that supervisors and ...

Although human resources purists point out the numerous distinctions between the two, in practice, performance appraisal and evaluation are used interchangeably. Both refer to a process by which your ...

A recent article in Governing explored how “local governments are changing the frequency of performance evaluations, who receives them and what they're assessing.” To me, this is definitely a good ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Three examples of next-gen performance management and whether there are better ways to get the most out of your people Performance management is meant to improve your organisation’s output, but, more ...

Occasionally when I’m with a large group I ask two questions. The first, “Who had a performance review last year?” will result in most hands going up. I follow up by asking, “Who had a really positive ...

Employees and companies have discarded performance appraisal methods as a futile exercise. However, studies have shown that nearly 72 percent of employees believe that their performance can be ...

Performance management was supposed to herald a brave new world, sweeping away the negative aspects of old-fashioned annual appraisals. In 2004 Armstrong and Baron were full of missionary fervour on ...

There is nothing like looking through the annals of days gone past to see if the organizational issues of yesteryear have become any better in today's world. Although somewhat masochistic, I enjoy ...