Compensation and Benefits
get compensated nicely for their actions throughout the year. However most supervisors do not know or remember what happened throughout the year leading up to the review.
There is a lot of cynicism surrounding performance appraisals and most of it seems well deserved. Older executives seem to take these appraisals a lot more serious then younger employees. How can this be changed so that all employees are on the same page when it comes to appraisal time? Cleaver writes “it’s no wonder, then, that mangers don’t give the appraisals-or the employees being scored-the care they deserve: a thought to consider, the next time you pen flits down that tidy column of boxes, bouncing randomly between “very good” and “excellent.”
Howard, C., (1998) Appraise This. Canadian Business, May 29, 1998,
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