Annual Anxiety: The Quest for the Ideal Performance Evaluation
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Annual Anxiety: The Quest for the Ideal Performance Evaluation By: Jennifer Jensen November 1, 2001 Organizational Behavior -- Steve Lytle, professor No matter who you are, you have likely had a negative experience with an annual review. The perceptions of the rater rarely match the perceptions of the ratee, and even when they do, both parties tend to doubt the efficacy and accuracy of such tools. Many times employees are left with an impression that their boss does not really know what they do, and the boss gets the idea that the employee did not hear the message he was attempting to convey. The problem lies less with the concept of performance evaluations: more than 90% of the employees at a company concerned about performance evaluation issues, indicated that they thought honest appraisal of their performance was critical to their success. Some 40% also felt they had never received such an appraisal--despite four-fifths of...


