A performance appraisal is when an employee's current or past performance is evaluated against his or her performance standards. The appraisal process involves setting work standards, evaluating the employee's actual performance to these standards and providing appropriate feedback to the employee. There are many types of appraisal methods available.
Many people painfully dread appraisal interviews.
It's often thought that it's just the employees that are dreading this day, when in fact, the employers are dreading it just as much. When you have not only the employee coming into the appraisal upset, but also the employer, of course there's going to be problems. Another problem with appraisal interviews for the employers is that they just take up way too much time. Supervisors have many more things they can be doing besides giving appraisal interviews to so many employees. Both the employer and the employee want to get this painful process over as quickly as possible.