The Appraisal Interview

Do you supervise people? If so, this book is for you. One of a manager’s toughest—and most important—responsibilities is to evaluate an employee’s performance, providing honest feedback and clarifying what they’ve done well and where they need to improve. In How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, Dick Grote provides a concise, hands-on guide to succeeding at every step of the performance appraisal process—no matter what performance management system your organization uses. Through step-by-step instructions, examples, do-and-don’t bullet lists, sample dialogues, and suggested scripts, he shows you how to handle every appraisal activity from setting goals and defining job responsibilities to evaluating performance quality and discussing the performance evaluation face-to-face. Based on decades of experience guiding managers through their biggest challenges, Grote helps answer the questions he hears most often: • How do I set goals effectively? How many goals should someone set? • How do I evaluate a person’s behaviors? Which counts more, behaviors or results? • How do I determine the right performance appraisal rating? How do I explain my rating to a skeptical employee? • How do I tell someone she’s not meeting my expectations? How do I deliver bad news? Grote also explains how to tackle other thorny performance management tasks, including determining compensation and terminating poor performers. In accessible and useful language, How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals will help you handle performance appraisals confidently and successfully, no matter the size or culture of your organization. It’s the one book you need to excel at this daunting yet critical task.

The Interview in Staff Appraisal, first published in 1975, sets out to ensure that the work appraisal is used constructively and within a well-designed system. The book provides personnel and training managers, and others responsible for the introduction of an appraisal system into their work organisation, with a detailed analysis of th

Here are the tools to build a genuinely proactive performance management program. Fully updated with all-new case studies from major companies, the second edition will help managers and HR professionals: Start a program designed to get maximum results Understand job requirements and set standards Use coaching to maximise performance Conduct more efficient and effective appraisal interviews Create performance improvement plans that really work

Since its introduction over thirty years ago, The Evaluation Interview has earned the reputation as the premier book on the subject of interviewing. Now in this brand-new edition, Richard Fear's classic is fully updated to meet the business challenges of the coming decade--including a scarcity of entry-level job seekers, widespread corporate restructuring, and heightened competition.

Compiling extensive research findings with real insights from the business world, this must-read book on performance appraisal explores its evolution from the classic appraisal to its current form, and the methodology behind its progression. Looking forward, Aharon Tziner and Edna Rabenu emphasize that well-conducted appraisals combine a mixture of classic and current, and are here to stay.

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Leadership, grade: 1,2, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to provide an insight into the theory of appraisal interviews and interviewing techniques. The main focus of the paper will be the theoretical foundations of the appraisal interview. At the beginning of the paper, the theoretical basis of the appraisal interview will be presented. For this purpose, the term appraisal interview will be defined in more detail and its objectives will be presented. Then, the components of the appraisal interview will be discussed. In this regard, the discussion on target agreements, the location assessment, the appraisal and development discussion, as well as the discussion on cooperation will be briefly explained. This is followed by a description of the interview process, which is divided into the rough steps of preparation, implementation and follow-up. The benefits of a qualified and committed appraisal interview are then explained.The paper concludes with a presentation of the basics of interviewing for managers. The following aspects are examined: the special situation of an appraisal interview, questioning techniques, active listening, "I" messages, feedback, praise and recognition, and criticism.