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.

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 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 ...

Q. My organization expects managers to finish performance appraisals before the end of year. I put them off until March because I end up arguing with employees about performance standards, salaries ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Murphy covers leadership, hiring and employee engagement. Annual performance reviews are infamous for their inefficiency and ...

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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) ...

The clocks just turned back for daylight savings time, and managers can look forward to the upcoming performance appraisal season. Yes, every manager’s least favorite activity: constrained budgets, ...

What happens when performance appraisals coincide with a global pandemic and rising tensions due to sustained racial injustice? In a time of uncertainty about job security for staff, faculty and ...

Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli has spent decades studying the complicated dynamics of employment. In a post-recession world, his research is more timely than ever as companies large and ...