Chapter 7. Prepare Your Employee

Until now, your employees have probably experienced performance appraisals as something that happened to them, something that was given to them. Well, no longer. A productive performance appraisal requires the cooperation and collaboration of both the supervisor and the employee. But you can’t expect your employees to be able to jump right in and give themselves an objective evaluation. You’ve got to prepare them to be able to participate in the process.

In Chapter 3, we introduced the job analysis form that should be filled out by you and also given to each employee. Refer back to Figure 3-1 on page 20 to recall what types of things are to be entered on the form.

The purpose of the job analysis is for both the employee ...

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