Critiques and Criticisms of Performance Management

Abolishing Performance Appraisals

By Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins - Abolish performance appraisals?  Certainly, if they don't work! Performance appraisals impede genuine feedback, and there%u2019s no solid evidence that it motivates people or lead to meaningful improvement.  In fact it usually produces distorted and unreliable data about the contribution of employees.  Consequently, the resulting documentation isn%u2019t useful for staffing decisions and often doesn't hold up in court.  Too often, appraisal destroys human spirit and, in the span of a 30-minute meeting, can transform a vibrant, highly committed employee into a demoralized, indifferent wallflower who reads want ads on the weekend. (Added: 3-Mar-2010 Hits: 231 )

American Metal Market: Performance appraisal processes scorned.(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)

By American Metal M - 90 percent of human resources executives would modify, "totally revise" or even eliminate their current performance appraisal processes (Added: 3-Dec-2002 Hits: 1509 )

Are Performance Appraisals Obsolete?

By Bob Nelson - Workplace expert Bob Nelson examines whether performance appraisals are in fact obselete. (Added: 14-Oct-2004 Hits: 1716 )

Get Rid of the Performance Review! - WSJ.com

By SAMUEL A. CULBERT - You can call me "dense," you can call me "iconoclastic," but I see nothing constructive about an annual pay and performance review. It's a mainstream practice that has baffled me for years. To my way of thinking, a one-side-accountable, boss-administered review is little more than a dysfunctional pretense. It's a negative to corporate performance, an obstacle to straight-talk relationships, and a prime cause of low morale at work. Even the mere knowledge that such an event will take place damages daily communications and teamwork. (Added: 28-Mar-2010 Hits: 129 )

How performance appraisals send you GAGA

By Leon Gettler - MANY performance appraisal systems are helping to produce dysfunctional organisations, according to a workplace ethics expert. When reading this be alert to mischaracterizations of appraisals and performance management. (Added: 11-Jul-2007 Hits: 1052 )

Managers are from Mars, Performance Appraisals from Venus « Running Agile

By na - This is a brief account of a presentation on performance appraisals that suggests the process should be replaced by more ongoing interaction between manager and employee. It's interesting because it falls into the trap of one or the other. My recommendation is you make appraisals mesh with the other aspects of performance management. (Added: 3-Mar-2010 Hits: 174 )

Performance appraisals - a double-edged sword

By Norweigan School of Management - Performance appraisals can actually be counter-productive for employees who are in the greatest need of training and further development. This fact is highlighted by Professor Bard Kuvaas from the BI Norwegian School of Management, based on a new research study. (Added: 16-May-2006 Hits: 2042 )