Appraising Workers and
Providing Daily Feedback
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Say performance appraisal, and most managers will make a face
as if they just bit into a lemon or gulped sour milk. It is not a popu-
lar topic Many, perhaps most, managers feel that today’s performance
management systems are a just a waste of their valuable time, a con-
spiracy by HR departments to make their lives more miserable by sad-
dling them with unnecessary and burdensome paperwork. The time
they have to spend on appraising performance and filling out per-
formance appraisal forms, they feel, could be put to better use in deal-
ing with more important matters. If managers are asked why they feel ...