Raise your hand if you hate performance reviews
July 21st, 2010
The Globe & Mail Report on Business, by Rasha Mourtada
If you think performance reviews are a waste of time, you’re not alone. They are time consuming, heavy on the paperwork and sometimes even downright awkward. For employees and managers alike, they add up to a human resources formality with little value.
But that need not be the case, says Sandra Reder, president of human resource consulting firm Vertical Bridge Corporate Consulting in Vancouver. If executed properly, performance reviews can serve as “a road map to get your business where it needs to go,” she says.