Deborah Hilden, human resources manager at a Hawthorne-based medical billing company, values employee performance reviews very highly. Still, last April, she suspended them, at least temporarily. Why?

Advice for workers receiving performance reviews is often circulated, but what about advice for managers? Since managers who review other managers represent a rarer breed, they often get lost in the ...

Performance appraisal systems are the core of effective communications between an organization and its employees, says career services firm Lee Hecht Harrison. Yet, if poorly done, they can undermine ...

Editor's note: The following message was sent today via email from Talent Management to all People Leaders. Summer is here, which means the next phase of our annual performance evaluation process is ...

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Organizations typically conduct performance reviews at least once a year, and rare is the individual who truly enjoys performance reviews. Most managers find it unpleasant to deliver negative feedback ...

Managers dread giving performance reviews and often don’t like to handle issues about employee behavior. Employees dread getting performance reviews and hate it when their manager disciplines them.

Avoid the recency effect. If you are truly looking back over the past year, it is important to factor all 12 months into the review. I have had discussions with leaders who tend to only remember the ...

This study aims to investigate the antecedents and consequences of manager’s performance appraisal cynicism (PA cynicism). Based on job demand-resources (JD-R) theory, we develop and test a model in ...

The days of playing fast and loose with the performance rating system used to measure Senior Executive Service members are over, according to a memo issued Nov. 1 by Office of Personnel Management ...