Performance Appraisal. "Most Performance Appraisals are subjective"

The basis of the majority of performance appraisals within the modern workplace is one person (a supervisor or manager) rating another, an inherently subjective process. There are variations such as 360 degree appraisals that include the opinions of others such as customers and peers/colleagues in the process but it is the action of one person passing judgement upon another that is subjective in nature and the root cause of many of the problems encountered in …

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