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 ...

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 ...

In lieu of an envelope, Lockheed Martin's one-page performance-appraisal form is on a computer screen. The annual appraisal is part of an integrated system that begins a year earlier, when individual ...

A top federal court has affirmed that federal agencies do not need to negotiate with the unions that represent their workforces over changes to performance evaluations, ending a fight that has been ...

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 ...

In any day-long seminar I give, the issue of performance appraisal invariably arises. The questioner doesn`t really want to talk about the issue but believes he or she must do so. And I don`t want to ...

One of the most mistrusted tools in management history is the performance appraisal. Most employees view it as a necessary evil and do not really believe that they get their just dues under its ...

There is a basic human tendency to make judgements about those one is working with, as well as about oneself. Appraisal, it seems, is both inevitable and universal. In the absence of a carefully ...

You know the term emotional intelligence—using your emotions, feelings, moods and those of others as a source of information that allows you to make better decisions and navigate through life more ...