Hi my name is Pat Goodwin with Pat Goodwin Associates. The question today is what is
employee performance appraisal. The actual performance appraisal is given to employees
during a time of year when it is appropriate for the manager or the company to evaluate
the performance of that individual. There are many types of performance appraisals that
can be offered to an individual. There could be a 360 that's offered when that individual
will answer questions based on the work itself, they will then ask fellow employees, colleagues,
their manager, someone maybe in HR or another department who would also fill out a 360 based
on that same individual. Then they would receive feedback based on their work performance,
their attitude, they're taking initiative, their ability to do the job, their competency
in doing the job, whether they're creative, strategic, what is their attitude as far as
being approachable, whether they're aloof or approachable. So it drills into the person's
performance as well as who the person is and how that person behaves. Then there could
be a performance appraisal that would be just on the skills of the individual. So you could
be a manufacturing company when they do a performance appraisal based on skills only,
it could be the aptitude to work a machine or the aptitude to make a product and when
you're in a highly sensitive secure environment and there are dangerous tools around or dangerous
chemicals, it could be the performance appraisal is based on just the skills alone. Most often
than not though, they're going to be looking at not only their skills and how well they
do their job based on their skills, but how are they doing their job, how are they actually
performing their jobs, are there mistakes made, if so, how have those mistakes been
resolved, what is their attitude in the workplace and how have they addressed issues such as
harmony in the workplace or diversity in the workplace. So there may be some issues that
would need to be addressed to that employee once the performance appraisal is over, so
the employee would have a road map to improve, a road map to continue to improve or a road
map to greatly improve or they would then be removed from the job if they do not show
significant improvement within a certain length of time. So basically the performance appraisal
is really good, it keeps everybody checked with how well they're doing, how, what they
can expect for maybe the future job and then how they can perform at a higher level based
on the feedback that they get from the appraisal.