Improving Employee Performance Through Appraisal and Coaching, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 2

The Basis for Appraisal

In reading Dick Grote’s Performance Appraisal Question and Answer Book, I was especially interested in his answer to this question: “Our performance appraisal form has a rating scale that asks whether the performance failed to meet expectations/met some expectations/met all expectations/exceeded expectations/and far exceeded expectations. If I haven’t discussed my expectations with the employee, how do I rate performance?”

Here is his answer:

Contained in this question is the best argument for conducting a performance-planning ...