Managing Staff Appraisals

A good definition for staff appraisals is ‘a management tool to help guide and support employee professional development‘. A manager who does not complete, or fails to do these effectively, is not supporting, and unlikely to get the best from, their team. Yet with a little research and guidance managers should be able to deliver successful staff appraisals. Young people entering the workplace today are taught in college that regular appraisals will be part of their career path and at subsequent exit interviews often cite poor and infrequent appraisals as a main reason for leaving, contributing to their feeling there ...