Making the Team: A Guide for Managers

Team Performance Appraisal

Individual performance appraisal is an evaluation of a person's behaviors and accomplishments in terms of the person's work in an organization. Performance appraisals are a source of feedback, a basis for personal development, and a determination of pay. The rise of teams presents special challenges for performance appraisal. It is difficult for a supervisor to conduct a traditional performance appraisal of an individual who is serving at least part time on a team. When the individual is part of a self-managed, self-directing, or self-governing team, it is virtually impossible, because supervisors are rarely close enough to the teams to evaluate them. The catch-22 is that if they were, they might hinder the performance ...