By na - What happens when employee ratings from performance appraisals end up leaked in the organization? Oh, you mean that data is confidential? You bet. Here's a short case study to remind you about confidentiality in performance evaluations. ^new (Added: 17-May-2006 Hits: 453 )

By Rex Black - Do you want to introduce a new objective to your organization that will help everyone who works for you? How about this: Stop destroying your team with bad MBOs. MBOs, or management by objectives, are commonly used as part of yearly performance reviews. In theory, the perfect set of objectives defines, in a quantified way, exactly what the employee is to achieve over the coming year. At the end of the year, in the annual performance review, the manager simply measures whether%u2014or to what extent%u2014the objectives were achieved. However, some management-by-objectives approaches backfire, often in dramatic ways. Let%u2019s look at three case studies of bad MBOs, how they negatively affected the team, and how the managers could have done better. ^new (Added: 28-Jun-2006 Hits: 409 )

By Julie Freeman - This article explores why existing formal and informal approaches to employee performance management and appraisal (EPMA) tend to work well enough in theory, but fail to meet expectations in practice. It identifies the root cause of the problem and presents a solution for how it can be eliminated, or at least minimized. Various suggestions for how it can be applied to meet differing individual or corporate needs are also outlined. ^pop (Added: 12-Sep-2002 Hits: 3465 )

By USTA - The U.S. Tennis Association summarizes what it believes is best practice in organizing and carrying out performance appraisals. (Added: 3-Mar-2005 Hits: 2159 )

By na - Performance appraisal has finally caught up with 21 st -century management practices. In the old model, performance appraisal tended to be one-way, adversarial, oriented toward the past and universally despised by all. In the new model, performance appraisal... (Added: 12-Sep-2005 Hits: 1768 )

By USA Today - Companies should "love and nurture" the top 20 percent of their employees, but actively weed out the bottom 10 percent, General Electric chief executive officer Jack Welch wrote in his 20th, and final, annual letter to shareholders last week. (Added: 23-May-2001 Hits: 2024 )

By National Partnership for Reinventing Government - Why should you, a government leader, try to achieve a balanced set of performance measures%u2014or what%u2019s often referred to as a family of measures? Here%u2019s what we found in our research: Because you need to know what your customer%u2019s expectations are and what your employee needs to have to meet those expectations. Because you cannot achieve your stated objectives without taking those expectations and needs into account. Most importantly, because it works, as can be seen from the success of our partners. So you need to balance your mission with customer, stakeholder, and employee perspectives. How exactly do you go about doing this? These are the best practices we learned from our partners. (Added: 3-Mar-2005 Hits: 828 )