Review of literature on performance appraisal

1. Review of literature on performance appraisal
Do you regularly review your employees? If you don't, you can gain many benefits
for you and your employees from instituting an employee performance appraisal
program. One benefit is improved employee performance and another benefit is
improved morale on the part of your employees. Most employees would like to know
how they are performing and all employees like to receive positive feedback about
their performance. A performance appraisal provides many opportunities including an
opportunity to praise employees for a job well done.
Here are some basic tips for how to review your employees:
1. Have a basis for the appraisal. An effective employee appraisal needs to be based
on mutually agreed upon goals and objectives.
2. Suggest that the employee review their own performance before you share your
review with them. This provides a good opportunity to make sure you and the
employee agree, where possible, on the appraisal.
3. Be prepared before you sit down with the employee and perform the appraisal.
Before the meeting, you need to review the objectives previously set with the
employee and need to be able to provide specifics about the employee's work and how
well the employee did or did not reach the objective.
4. Block out all interruptions. Allowing phone calls to interrupt your discussion with
the employee makes it appear as if you don't care about the employee and as if you
don't think the appraisal process is an important one.
5. Listen and interact. A successful appraisal is not a one way conversation. You must
interact with an employee during the appraisal and get their feedback on what you are
saying. Where there are areas for improvement, you need to get the employee to agree
to these areas and to agree to take action to improve performance. Ideally you and the
employee should agree on what specific actions will be taken to improve
performance.
6. Discuss the balance between work life and personal life- An employee who only
focuses on work to the detriment of his personal life will eventually become burned
out and will provide less value to your practice.
7. Don't consider an employee performance appraisal a once a year process. You
should be providing your chiropractic staff members with ongoing feedback about
their performance. Your feedback should be frequent enough so that at an annual
performance review session, nothing discussed will be a surprise to the employee.
8. If one or more employees in your practice supervise others, make sure they perform
regular, effective employee appraisals.

2. 9. Consider an assessment of your own approach for employee performance appraisal
approach. There are many excellent resources about conducting effective employee
performance appraisals.
Conducting effective employee performance appraisals can help improve the
efficiency and profitability of your practice- and also keep your employees happy and
more productive. If you aren't conducting formal employee performance appraisal
sessions now, you should begin putting such a program in place as soon as possible.
http://performanceappraisalebooks.info/ : Over 200 ebooks, templates, forms for
performance appraisal.