Workplace assessment or “appraisal” is the process of looking back to analyse past job performance, and looking forward with a view to improving future performance.
The overall objective of an effective appraisal scheme should be to help each employee to maximise his or her job performance for the joint benefit of the employee and the organisation.
Where an employee is underperforming, the employer should address the performance issues promptly.
Doctors will face annual appraisals and have to renew their licences every five years under government plans to toughen up...
Management experts believe a tick-box mentality about appraisals exists in the UK workplace and that many employers are simply ignoring...
This weeks letters about Train to Gain, staff appraissals, the CIPD's lost opportunity in China, and working carers...
Nearly half of UK employees believe that their boss is not honest with them in an appraisal, new research has...
Hundreds of BBC workers could be forced to reapply for their jobs as the corporation tries to shed up to...
Some people’s personalities mean they will get very little from e-learning, according to research conducted by psychometric testing specialist SHL....
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is widely used in training and L&D. But how appropriately?
Employers need to play a greater role in the regulation of healthcare professionals in the future, according to NHS Employers’...
As one of the main formal ways that organisations have of talking to individual employees, appraisal is an important and...
This issue, trainer and writer John Charlton leafs through a useful new guide to assessing NVQs
A new online Slips Assessment Tool (SAT) that evaluates potential risks to workers and others from slipping hazards in the workplace...
Appreciative Inquiry offers organisations a more positive approach to problem-solving. In the first of a three-part series, we put the method into context for the people development professional
With a new managing director and a place on the board, the HR director at TNT Express has a lot to look forward to.
John Seddon argues that command and control cultures are failing organisations and that HR should drive forward new ways of working
Nathalie Towner looks at how an online 360-degree feedback system helped transform the appraisal process at AAH Pharmaceuticals
