Most companies, including small businesses, are continuously seeking to improve their productivity. To accomplish this, some companies engage in performance appraisals to determine how well their ...

Workplace retaliation is a serious issue. However, retaliatory behavior can be eliminated through communication, training and workplace policies that support discipline or counseling for employees and ...

As the end of the year approaches, many of us are facing the dreaded performance appraisal process that punctuates the year’s end and sets performance goals for the next. It wasn’t long ago that a ...

An interest in the 1980s on pay for performance focused renewed attention on the performance appraisal process. In the 1990s, the spotlight has, in part, shifted to Total Quality Management (TQM), ...