Employee Evaluation
Though often understated or even denied, evaluation is a legitimate and major objective of performance appraisal.
But the need to evaluate is also an ongoing source of tension, since evaluative and developmental priorities appear to frequently clash. Yet at its most basic level, performance appraisal is the process of examining and evaluating the performance of an individual.
Though organizations have a clear right, some would say a duty, to conduct such evaluations of performance, many still recoil from the idea. To them, the explicit process of judgment can be demoralizing and a source of anxiety and distress to employees.
But there may be an acceptable middle ground, where the need to evaluate employees objectively, and the need to encourage and develop them, can be balanced.
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