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For many, June is bittersweet. While the month indicates the official launch of summer — and upcoming vacations — it also signals performance review time for countless IT professionals. Needless to ...

An employee performance appraisal is a process—often combining both written and oral elements—whereby management evaluates and provides feedback on employee job performance, including steps to improve ...

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For many supervisors, performance evaluations represent a tedious process at best — agonizing at worst. And when managers don't like the procedures, or aren't properly prepared for it, they can derail ...

Yes, it’s that time of year again -- when the groans of managers can be heard over the mere mention of the words, “Annual Performance Reviews.” Many managers see performance appraisals as nothing more ...

Thanks to advances in technology, we've been able to expedite many HR processes. These tools give us the power to facilitate, ameliorate, and automate a number of critical HR functions. But how do you ...

If your departments are complaining about performance appraisals, then they are not alone. NPR reports that stats from CEB, a research firm blog, indicate that 83 percent of human resource (HR) ...

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