An employee performance appraisal is a process—often combining both written and oral elements—whereby management evaluates and provides feedback on employee job performance, including steps to improve ...

Many small business owners have a small staff in which everyone feels like family. It can be difficult to "write a report card" for someone you feel very close to. Understand that the employee ...

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 ...

Workplace retaliation is a serious issue. However, retaliatory behavior can be eliminated through communication, training and workplace policies that support discipline or counseling for employees and ...

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As the end of the year approaches, many of us are facing the dreaded performance appraisal process that punctuates the year’s end and sets performance goals for the next. It wasn’t long ago that a ...

Many business leaders and experts say that performance reviews are just not that effective. It’s true that there are many ways employers can tank one of these reviews and make it less helpful for ...