The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (UT System) supports employee performance evaluation programs endorsed by the Governor's Office and requires a formal performance evaluation of ...

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 ...

Performance appraisals are one way to maintain a standard of performance in an organization. For smaller businesses this is especially important because it can be one of the key advantages that a ...

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Determining performance appraisal criteria for any job can be challenging. This is particularly true with buyers, since you cannot set simple quotas as you could for salespeople. However, a few simple ...

Q: I have a few employees who are really not doing their jobs. I don't know how to go about telling them they need to improve their performance or leave the company. What is the best way to do this? A ...

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 ...

The mutually dreaded performance review is often a time of anxiety on both the part of the manager and the employee. Unfortunately, the narrative often follows the same storyline: The manager focuses ...

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I presided over the annual performance-review process for 10,000 employees and I regret it now. Performance reviews are expensive, time-consuming and pointless. They are worse than pointless because ...