Performance appraisals are an integral part of employee engagement. They help your staff understand how their work is evaluated, where they excel, and what areas need improvement. This type of ...

Supervisors identify employee strengths by comparing performance standards to the manner in which employees perform their job duties and tasks. Performance appraisal-worthy strengths include job ...

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 ...

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 ...

How would you assess your performance at work over the past few months? You can be honest. Are you consistently crushing it, or struggling to stay afloat? Do you make your boss look good on a regular ...

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 ...

Many of the traditional performance appraisal rating systems comprise numerical scales, or qualitative scales with parameters like 'meets expectations’ or ‘exceeds expectations.' However, this ...

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) ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

A performance appraisal is one of the most important but feared milestones of every employee’s career. The number of reviews that people receive varies by organization—anywhere from monthly to ...