Business owners must be able to gauge whether or not an employee is meeting performance standards. Developing a process that enables managers to appraise performance through objective metrics is ...

If you're a small business owner and haven't gotten around to offering employee performance appraisals, now is the time to start. Performance appraisals can benefit employees and organizations by ...

As the end of the year approaches, many of us are facing the dreaded performance appraisal process that punctuates the year’s end and sets performance goals for the next. It wasn’t long ago that a ...

If you're a federal employee operating under a pay-for-performance system, there is one thing that could make or break you when it comes to annual performance reviews and pay increases: how you write ...

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 ...

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The new Department of Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program is about performance and results. Working in an organization where employees know what is expected, where there is a shared ...