Posted on
05 December 2007
by
Rebecca Roberts
...says the Investors in People survey. Most people just seem to hate them. But is this appraisals per se, or just most people's experience of them?
If your experience of appraisals is a meandering, paper-chasing, process-for-process'-sake type exercise, then you've got my sympathy.
But surely the point is not that appraisals are 'bad' (any people-dependent organisation must, by definition, engage in them), simply that most managers don't enjoy the skills, tools and cultures to deliver them properly?
Becci