What happens, generally, is that management complains that they don't have the time to do the evaluations. Upper level management will buy the excuse because they'd rather have the managers producing than performing the appraisals. The system falls behind. Employees aren't evaluated on time or at all. As a result, employees are unhappy.
Management starts scrambling around.
Possible Solutions Hold managers accountable As a consultant to hospital and nonprofit clients, Blankenship has implemented systems whereby the offending managers and supervisors are held to account for their failures in the performance appraisal process. The failure to do the evaluations on time should subtract something from that supervisor's performance evaluation, he says. It should hit him in the pocket. Blankenship advises that hospitals insist that employee performance appraisals are assigned due dates and turned in on time. Advise managers that the performance appraisal process is ongoing.