Last week, we learnt about training and developing the workforce, this week we are focusing on how to evaluate, discuss and improve employees' performance. Our textbook introduces performance appraisals as first. For me, this was an unknown word term so I did not know, what to expect. There are three steps in which appraisal process should be conducted. Those are identification (what will be measured and evaluated), measurement (evaluating itself and deciding on the quality of performance) and management (considering the measurement together with the employee and setting a future view). Many companies nowadays still don't see the benefits of appraisals. However they are important to the company for two reasons; administrative reasons (for sufficient information and documentation- to ensure fair promotions, terminations and reward distribution) and developmental reasons (improving performance of employees and thus of the organization as a whole, deciding on the skills that ...