Many small business owners have a small staff in which everyone feels like family. It can be difficult to "write a report card" for someone you feel very close to. Understand that the employee ...

Performance management starts before the employee even reports to work on his first day -- it begins during the recruitment and selection process and continues throughout the employment relationship.

In lieu of an envelope, Lockheed Martin's one-page performance-appraisal form is on a computer screen. The annual appraisal is part of an integrated system that begins a year earlier, when individual ...

A top federal court has affirmed that federal agencies do not need to negotiate with the unions that represent their workforces over changes to performance evaluations, ending a fight that has been ...