Fri.Aug 05, 2011

Eric Jacobson

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How To Avoid These 8 Employee Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobson

You'll learn how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls in what I think is the best chapter of the book " The Essential HR Handbook ," written by Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell. If you are a leader and it's time to conduct an employee evaluation, Armstrong and Mitchell caution you to watch for these pitfalls when making your evaluation: Clustering everyone in the middle performance-rating categories Overlooking flaws or exaggerating the achievements of favored employees Excusing s