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?

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 ...

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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.

One of the most unnerving parts of a job performance review for many employees is hearing suggestions or feedback from the boss on how they can raise their work game. But now a new concept that some ...

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 ...

As long as companies are doing business, employee performance and productivity conversations will not go by the wayside. In fact, it may be more critical than ever to conduct performance reviews with ...

No one likes to be judged. Performance reviews are often a “necessary evil” within a corporate environment, and they can be quite nerve-wracking for new and even more established employees. But even ...