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Performance Appraisal: a face-to-face discussion in which one employee's work is discussed, reviewed, and appraised by another, using an agreed and understood framework. Usually, line managers conduct...; Performance Appraisal definition on BNET »

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How To Use performance appraisals To Build Staff Success And Company Results: The annual performance appraisal is an opportunity to enhance employee performance and create greater success for the company and the individual. This paper's intent is to explore how coaching skills can be used in creating a good performance appraisal experience for both the employee and the supervisor and how to...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, supervisor, appraisal, performance, environment; White papers 2008-03-22
Performance Management Is Not an Annual Appraisal: Performance appraisals are a hot topic in management and organizations these days. In fact, hundreds of resources exist to tell the person how to do performance reviews. The author thinks that this is the wrong approach. Should the person do reviews at all? People want to know how to do...; Tags: Performance Appraisal, performance review, appraisal, performance, performance management; White papers
performance appraisals Don't Work: Second only to firing an employee, managers cite performance appraisal as the task they dislike the most. This is understandable given that the process of performance appraisal, as traditionally practiced, is fundamentally flawed. It is incongruent with the values-based, vision-driven, mission-oriented, participative work environments favored by forward thinking organizations today....; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, firing, performance, environment; White papers
Human Resource Issues Need Constant Attention: Total quality management, benchmarking, re-engineering and the move to self-managing teams, are all concerned with performance. In human resources management, training, performance management (including performance appraisal and salary administration), recruitment and selection, and employee relations' activities are all concerned with performance. Each makes an important contribution. Often these initiatives are...; Tags: Organizational structure, Team management, Human Resources, Performance Appraisal, Total Quality Management, HRM, performance, re-engineering, performance management, benchmarking, training, team; White papers
Improving the Quality of performance appraisals Through Rater Training: Measuring work performance is a critical HR function, insofar as performance measures are used for a wide array of personnel-related decisions. Rater training is one approach for improving rating quality. To the extent that employees in the same job are evaluated by different sources it is important that a common...; Tags: Workforce management, Performance management, HR.com, training, performance, Human Resources, job; White papers

Performance Agreements Lead to Improved Organizational Results: General Accounting Office's (GAO) report, Emerging Benefits from Selected Agencies' Use of Performance Agreements, centered on the implementation of performance agreements in three agencies - Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Transportation, and the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Department of Education. Each agency uses performance agreements to...; Tags: Performance management, BetterManagement.com, General Accounting Office, agency, performance, Performance Appraisal, accountability; White papers
The Great Debates About 360 Degree Feedback: In the great 360 degree feedback debate, do members of the organization provide 360 degree feedback anonymously or face-to-face? Do 360 ratings affect performance appraisal ratings and salary increases or are they used to provide employees feedback for development? These and several other debates rage on in the performance management...; Tags: Team management, 360-degree, Performance Appraisal, performance management, performance; White papers
Current Legal Issues in performance appraisal: To say that the importance of legal issues in performance appraisal has skyrocketed in recent years would be something of an understatement. This paper offers a foundation for helping to recognize aspects of performance appraisals that are likely to wind up in litigation, and for modifying those that have caused...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, performance, litigation; White papers
Beyond Traditional SMART Goals: Once upon a time, in a business management world that seems more remote with every passing day, SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-based goals) were enough to support business success. No more. Just as the annual performance appraisal, tied to the year's accomplishments and the annual raise, is...; Tags: Operational planning, Performance management, goal-setting, business management, Performance Appraisal, performance; White papers
Performance Management Process Checklist: Performance appraisals, performance reviews, appraisal forms, whatever one wants to call them, let's call them gone! As a stand-alone, annual assault, a performance appraisal is universally disliked and avoided. After all, how many people in the organization want to hear that they were less than perfect last year? How many...; Tags: Team management, Performance Appraisal, appraisal, performance management, performance, performance review; White papers
Get Your performance appraisal Discussions Off To A Good Start: Too often, participants in performance appraisal meetings seem awkward and uncomfortable. To some extent, that's unavoidable - it's always a bit awkward for one person to deliver a formal assessment of the quality of work performed by another. But following some simple suggestions can eliminate a lot of the awkwardness...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, performance; White papers 2007-12-01
Ten Stupid Things Managers Do To Screw Up performance appraisal: Performance appraisals aren't fun. Performance appraisal is the end of a process that goes on all the time - a process that is based on good communication between manager and employee. But a lot of the time they are agonizing because managers do really dumb things, ending up destroying a...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, performance; White papers 2007-12-01
Ten Tips For Creating A Terrific Employee Appraisal System: Face the facts: Creating a new performance appraisal system is a difficult undertaking. It's even more difficult if the organization doesn't have a logical, well-tested, step-by-step process to follow in developing their new procedure. Based on experience in helping dozens of companies create performance appraisal systems that actually work, this...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, performance evaluation, appraisal, performance; White papers 2007-12-01
How Accurate Are Your performance appraisals?: Performance Management Systems (PMS) are very important to public personnel management. Papers addressing this topic are very common in human resource management, especially as of late. One of the key issues is the accuracy of performance appraisal ratings. If they feel the ratings are inaccurate, it is unlikely that employees...; Tags: Team management, Performance Appraisal, performance management, performance, personnel management, HRM, Human Resources; White papers 2007-12-01
performance appraisal: Why Ratings Based Appraisals Fail: A rating system compares employee performance to some set of criterion, and produces either a number or a letter grade that supposedly represents the employee's level of performance. A rating system permits everyone to be rated highly, if they warrant it. Rating systems are so popular that computer programs have...; Tags: Performance management, PRODUCTIVITY, Performance Appraisal, appraisal, supervisor, performance, computer; White papers 2007-12-01
Should You Measure Individual People's Performance?: Performance Appraisal, Individual Performance Review, Personal Performance Development Plan. There are numerous names for this artifact of the organisation, but they are names for basically the same concept: the measurement, review, evaluation and management of the performance of an employee. And it is one of the most contentious management processes...; Tags: Performance management, Performance Appraisal, performance review, performance; White papers 2007-12-01
Know When To Get Help - Performance Management Consulting: Most people dread performance appraisals because it is tiring and tedious, and people believe their jobs may be on the line. Of course, performance appraisals are really quite useful because management can fully make sense out of the things that have been happening in the company. Through a yearly performance...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, Performance Appraisal, performance, job; White papers 2007-04-16
What A performance appraisal Is And What It Is Not: Performance appraisals are an important part of performance management. In itself an appraisal is not performance management, but it is one of the range of tools that can be used to manage performance. Because it is most usually carried out by line managers rather than Human Resource (HR) professionals, it...; Tags: Team management, Business intelligence, Performance Appraisal, performance management, performance, appraisal, Human Resources, tool; White papers 2007-05-17
Getting Down To Business - Employee performance appraisals: When it comes to manning the company, one should aim to know absolutely everything that goes in and out of it. From how much profit the company makes monthly to employee satisfaction. And because it is the company's duty to know as much as possible, an employee performance appraisal is...; Tags: Performance, Bestmanagementarticles.com, Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; White papers 2007-04-15
Getting Down To Business Employee performance appraisals: When it comes to manning your company, you should aim to know absolutely everything that goes in and out of it. From how much profit the company makes monthly to employee satisfaction. And because it is the company's duty to know as much as possible, an employee performance appraisal is...; Tags: Team management, Performance management, Performance Appraisal, appraisal; White papers 2007-01-01