Employee performance evaluations give the employer a glimpse at the productivity and quality of work within the company. The evaluations help you determine if employees are reaching goals and meeting ...

A performance appraisal offers a manager the opportunity to evaluate an employee, but it can also offer an employee the opportunity to evaluate himself. Self-appraisal can encourage employees to ...

Dear Faculty Relations: I know performance reviews have to be done next month for my university staff and research faculty. What does a successful year-end review look like? —Anxious Supervisor Dear ...

Employee evaluations don't have to be painful if you know the whys, hows and wherefores of carrying them out. Most firms do annual employee evaluations. Some managers do them well. In too many cases, ...

Like many officers in the fire service, my employee evaluation training came from screwing things up and asking a bunch of questions, trying to figure things out on my own. But even if proper training ...

Many employee performance evaluation processes or systems are met with some level of disdain by employees. • I spent hours writing my self-evaluation and no one read it. • Written evaluations seem to ...

There's been considerable dialogue in this publication and others that annual employee performance evaluations are useless - unsatisfactory, demoralizing, at best a blunt instrument for a delicate job ...