By Victor Buzzotta - While this article will help you improve your performance appraisal process, it also provides an excellent explanation of why performance appraisals often go awry. Covers inadequate skills, wrong attitudes and poor process, and what to do about it. (Added: 5-Aug-2004 Hits: 1170 )

By NA - The notion behind performance appraisal - that workers should be held accountable for their performance - is plausible. However, the evidence suggests that the premise is wrong. Individual behaviour in organisations and thus their achievements are governed more by the system they work in than anything they are able to do. (Added: 24-Apr-2003 Hits: 940 )

By Longnecker, Sims and Gioia - Edited excerpt from Behind the Mask: The Politics of Employee Appraisal, it contains some managerial comments that illustrate that performance appraisal can be considered a political process. (Added: 5-Aug-2004 Hits: 423 )

By Seattle Times - Only three of 10 workers agree that their company's review process actually helps employees improve performance, according to a new study released by Watson Wyatt. (Added: 20-Dec-2004 Hits: 269 )

By Clinton O. Longenecker - Whether you have a great appraisal form, a second-rate checklist, or no form at all, the process matters more than the paper. Good managers are consistent in making performance management a key component of their personal job responsibilities. Here is their advice on making performance appraisals work for them and for the organization - advice that will assist those managers who ask you how they can get the best from their people. (Added: 11-Feb-2005 Hits: 424 )

By Bob Filipzcak - Another critique of performance appraisals from Fred Nichols, as quoted in Training Magazine. pdf format (Added: 3-Jan-2004 Hits: 389 )