BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Performance Appraisal
- a face-to-face discussion in which one employee's work is discussed, reviewed, and appraised by another, using an agreed and understood framework. Usually, line managers conduct the appraisals of their staff, although peers can appraise each other, and line managers can themselves be appraised by their staff through 360 degree appraisal. The appraisal process focuses on behaviors and outcomes, and strives to improve motivation, growth, and performance of the appraisee. Performance appraisals should be conducted at least once a year.
- Also known as Performance Review
Additional Resources
- Performance Appraisal System
- The Performance Appraisal System is an integral part of performance management within DOI. Revision to the law allows each agency to develop one or more performance appraisal systems for employees covered. The agency appraisal system, in this case the DOI Performance Appraisal System, establishes agency wide policy for the application...
- White papers 1998-11-18
- Performance Appraisal
- Performance appraisal is the periodical, formal evaluation of employee performance for making career decisions. These presentation talks about HR functions affected by performance appraisals, fair employment practices applied to performance appraisal, ways to employers protect themselves against bias claims, criteria for compliance, conducting performance appraisals, critics of performance appraisal, approaches...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Effects Of Performance Appraisal On Employee Attitudes
- Performance appraisal systems are not, as many critics say, useless and evil. When paying attention to careful PAS planning and proper techniques used, performance appraisal might be perceived not only as an irreplaceable tool for recognizing and rewarding good performance and correcting poor performance, but mainly as a way how...
- White papers 2004-10-27
- Performance Appraisal -- An Important Managerial Responsibility
- Performance appraisal should be viewed as a beneficial process within the context of an effective system of personnel management. It should be accepted as a normal management responsibility to review the performance of all employees and for all managers to discuss performance with their subordinates on a regular basis. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Employee Performance Appraisal To Boost Employee Performance
- An employee performance appraisal is necessary for providing information with regard to performance ratings. This information helps in the decision making process that concern confirmation, demotion, promotion, salary fixation and transfer. Other than this information, an employee performance appraisal also gives feedback information about the degree of achievement as well...
- White papers 2008-02-21
- Mastering Workforce Performance Appraisal
- This report describes how to implement performance appraisal best practices for maximum impact on workforce performance and human capital development. Three key sets of best practices are vital to building and maintaining a valuable performance appraisal system: carefully choosing performance criteria, training performance appraisers for better accuracy and creating employee...
- White papers 2004-07-02
- Performance Appraisal: An Overview
- This presentation highlights the concept of performance appraisal. The main purposes of performance appraisal are to evaluative decision and develop decision. For evaluating the performance various methods have been developed. Among them the critical is management by objective MBO. Management By Objectives is process of joint objective setting between...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Don't Redesign Your Company's Performance Appraisal System: Scrap It!
- From the executive summary: ‘At a time when many corporations are engaged in unrelenting searches for ways to improve operations and reduce costs, there is one aspect of organizational life that has largely escaped scrutiny: Performance Appraisal. Perhaps this is because performance appraisals have become an unquestioned fact in most...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Performance Appraisal
- From the executive summary: ‘After employee selection, performance appraisal is arguably the most important management tool a farm employer has at her disposal. The performance appraisal, when properly carried out, can help to fine tune and reward employee performance.' The paper discusses the purpose of performance appraisal and discusses the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Secrets Of Performance Appraisal: Lessons From The Best
- What's the biggest secret about performance appraisal? It's this: performance appraisal actually works! Too many companies remain in denial about the benefits that a well-executed performance management system generates. They may articulate the importance of transforming their stale, "Best-effort" culture into a tough-minded, results-driven one, but fail to fathom that...
- White papers 2000-05-01
- Employee Performance Appraisal: Tips For Developing An Effective Employee Performance Appraisal
- Nearly every person who has held a job is aware of the employee performance appraisal. The vast majority of employees dread them, and simply hearing the words "Employee performance appraisal" can provoke anxiety in both supervisors and employees. Unfortunately, there is much negativity attached to the process, but, if done...
- White papers 2007-01-26
- Employee Performance Appraisal - 5 Steps For The Ideal Assessment Form
- How to develop a perfect employee performance appraisal form. And getting the form right is essential to effective employee performance management. Organizational competencies and job-specific competencies are the first two elements of an exemplary employee performance appraisal form. The final element of an ideal employee performance appraisal form is the...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Performance Appraisal Session Techniques
- This paper explains the semi-annual or annual formal performance appraisal process and session. This conversation between you and the employee represents a summary of the ongoing communications you have had about the employee's performance and achievements throughout the current appraisal period, and identifies performance objectives for the following period. Many...
- White papers 2004-02-29
- Seven Stupid Things EMPLOYEES Do To Screw Up Performance Appraisal
- Generally, when performance appraisal goes awry, the primary cause has little to do with employees. For the most part, employees take their cues from management and human resources. However, when individual employees perceive the process in negative ways, they can create or damage even the best of appraisal processes. Article...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Performance Appraisal For Civil Service Employees
- From the executive summary: ‘Performance appraisal provides a periodic review and evaluation of an individual's job performance. Although the appraisal forms may only be completed once a year, the job of performance appraisal is continuous and requires effective communication on both the part of the supervisor and the employee. The...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Employee Performance Appraisal - 5 Steps For The Ideal Assessment Form
- There is an ideal model for the employee performance appraisal form. And getting the form right is essential to effective employee performance management, since the appraisal form is the lightning rod that not only attracts everyone's attention, but also focuses organizational energy on the issues of highest priority. Organizational competencies...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Striding Toward A Successful Performance Appraisal Exercise
- One of the most difficult internal processes that HR has to face every year, once or twice, is employee appraisal. The appraisal process in an organization requires lots of resources both financial and manpower. On other hand, it also offers organizations an excellent opportunity to analyze the strengths and weaknesses...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- What A Performance Appraisal Is And What It Is Not
- Performance appraisals are an important part of performance management. In itself an appraisal is not performance management, but it is one of the range of tools that can be used to manage performance. Because it is most usually carried out by line managers rather than Human Resource HR professionals, it...
- White papers 2007-05-17
- How You Write An Annual Performance Appraisal Could Work For Or Against You
- How you write a performance appraisal is about improving performance and rewarding achievements. It needs to be so much more than a way a manager "Gets even" or a reason not to pay out bonuses. It is doubtful that anyone truly enjoys the performance review season because of the numerous...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Orlando's Performance Appraisal and Merit Increase Program
- "This article provides a performance appraisal and merit program based on performance that meets or exceeds standards. All positions are governed by this policy except Elected Officials, Appointed Officials, Civil Service Management, temporary, and those covered by collective bargaining agreements. This article also includes definitions and information about appeals,...
- White papers 2002-10-01
