[...]... on the Forms cd-rom 140 B tear-out checklists and Forms Checklists: avoiding legal trouble identifying Job requirements Preparing an employee for goal setting identifying goals Writing Performance objectives documenting Performance information to gather for a Performance appraisal assessing Performance common Performance appraisal errors agenda for the Year-end appraisal meeting Forms: Performance. .. job-related goals and standards for their performance Chapter 3 shows you how • Regularly observe and document employee performance in relation to these goals and standards Chapter 4 gives you the tools you need • Meet with employees periodically to discuss their performance and to redeine their goals, if necessary Chapters 4 and 5 explain how • Conduct a formal performance appraisal at the end of each... have performed You can increase employees’ job satisfaction and engender their trust in the appraisal system by bringing them into the loop and giving them power and responsibility for directing and assessing their own performance This satisfaction and trust leads employees to accept the company’s appraisal process and make a commitment to their own development In addition, you need the information... rather than base the decision on the appraisal in such cases, neither the salary decisions nor the reviews make much sense and if a lawsuit arises, the appraisal may not adequately explain why a certain employee got a raise but another did not CHApTEr 1: An oVErVIEW oF pErForMAnCE ApprAISAL 1 Focus on the Future If, at its heart, a performance appraisal process is designed to improve employee performance, ... performance and morale, identify poor performers and ways they can improve, and lay the groundwork for legally defensible discipline and termination • a manager’s attitude helps determine whether a performance appraisal system will succeed if the manager is enthusiastic about the chance to work with employees to improve their performance and their work experiences, the employees will share that enthusiasm... employees, performance appraisal is not only real work—it is an essential part of your job often, the performance evaluation process is the only time set aside for formal communication with your employees about their work if you follow the guidance in this book, the time you spend on the performance appraisal process will pay for itself many times over with improvements to the eficiency, productivity, performance, ... unspeciied legal consequences of performance evaluations makes managers uncomfortable many managers have been warned that they can get their company and themselves into legal trouble if they don’t do things correctly, but nobody explains what that means this book clearly explains the legal consequences of performance evaluations CHApTEr 1: An oVErVIEW oF pErForMAnCE ApprAISAL 1 The Elements of an Effective... place for storing performance records, whereas the system described here assumes that managers keep their own iles Although you should pay attention to these differences and follow your company’s rules know that most of these variations are cosmetic All effective performance appraisal systems share the same basic qualities, and those are the themes that you should take away from this book and apply to the. .. your efforts to improve their performance 1 THE pErForMAnCE ApprAISAL HAndBook Money, Money, Money some companies connect performance appraisal to salary review; others don’t tying the two together is a subject of some controversy obviously, you must follow your company’s procedures But if you have some say in the matter, you might consider the following reasons some companies choose to keep performance. .. evaluations make the workplace more fair and predictable, thereby reducing the chances of disgruntled and, therefore, litigious—employees This chapter provides an overview of performance evaluation systems by exploring their beneits, considering the qualities shared by effective systems, and introducing you to the steps in the model system this book presents 10 THE pErForMAnCE ApprAISAL HAndBook CHApTEr . Amy, 1967- The performance appraisal handbook : legal & practical rules for managers/ by Amy DelPo 2nd ed. p. cm. Contents: An overview of performance appraisal Legal traps Performance . Employee for Goal Setting Identifying Goals Writing Performance Objectives Documenting Performance Information to Gather for a Performance Appraisal Assessing Performance Common Performance Appraisal. clients. Mr. Fethe also helped develop and patent an online user interface for performance feedback, which formed the basis for MindSolve Technologies, an entrepreneurial performance management