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Seven Stupid Things Human Resource Departments Do To
Seven Stupid Things Human Resource Departments Do To
Resource Departments Do To
Screw Up Performance Appraisals
Lets begin ….. But
acknowledgments first
This article is based on the book:
Performance Management - Why Doesn't
It Work, and the McGraw-Hill book entitled
Performance Management released in
October, 1998.
Where is the problem?
Managers don't do dumb things just to fill up
their time. A lot of the time we find that when
managers are doing performance appraisals
badly, they are getting a lot of "help“ from their
human resource (HR) or personnel department.
Central HR departments can create a situation
that virtually destroys any value from the
performance appraisal process.
Stupid Thing #1