NZBusiness+Management (Digital)

NZBusiness+Management (Digital)

1 Issue, November 2015

The performance review is dead – long live the performance conversation

Instead of an uncomfortable, formal meeting once, twice or three times a year, the expectation is that manager and employee will meet informally and frequently throughout the year to discuss how things are going, says Christine Whelan.
ON pretty much every human resources website and forum these days, you’ll find a big story telling us that one or another large, well-known company is abandoning the annual performance review. We discover through these articles that performance reviews are time-wasting, bureaucratic, energy–sapping remnants of a bygone era in human resource management. Managers hate doing them, employees dread them and they don’t achieve what they set out to do, which is to provide an objective review of an employee’s performance over a 12–month period. I think it would be difficult to find anyone who would completely disagree with this view. Reading these headlines it might be tempting to conclude that there will no longer be any monitoring of an employee’s performance. Instead we’re just going to trust that they will be motivated and…
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