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 ...

Evaluating an employee's performance isn't easy, but it can be a valuable process for both of you. Providing feedback to your employees is important because it's an opportunity for you to give and ...

The trick is to keep it simple. What often ends up happening, is companies over complexify these things for no reason. This is a huge mistake though, because if it’s too long or complex, managers will ...

Most organizations have some sort of performance appraisal system in place to evaluate decisions related to promotions, salary hikes and professional development. To execute that, a set of ...

This communication provides updates on the UC Santa Cruz 2018-19 performance appraisal call for all staff and the merit program for policy-covered employees. The performance cycle runs from July 1, ...

If you are like most business owners, you have the best of intentions when it comes to reviewing employees. But you probably dread it as well — so much effort for something that makes everyone ...

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 ...

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 ...