Evaluating Employees Part 1 of 3
Evaluating Employees
Evaluating employees is possibly the most dreaded and unpleasant HR exercise in any organization, because of the reactions that are
unleashed as a result of it. But it doesn't have to be. It is obvious that any organization is ultimately only as good as
its employees. So it is important that the evaluation process is transparent, objective and fair ' ensuring all
employees are happy with the process and the outcome.
Transparency, objectivity and therefore impartiality can only be maintained with sufficient information collected on the employee
to be evaluated. Each and every facet of an employee's performance must be taken into account.
Invaluable performance information, regarding evaluating employees, must be gathered from all available
sources - co-workers, other managers, clients and even subordinates can provide observations and opinions to
validate a reviewer's own assessment. Even new information and different viewpoints may come to light.
The easiest and best way for evaluating employees is by maintaining useful documentation
or performance notes that help run through
the performance milestones of an employee during the entire evaluation period. They refresh reviewer's memories about
performance levels attained before the evaluation process started. The notes kept on an employee's performance and progress
on their objective's can document significant events, remarks and supplementary data about the employee;
in fact, they can provide factual illustrations to back-up assessments.
Continue to read part 2 on Evaluating Employees.
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