9 Managing Teams and Performance Appraisal

When you are working with teams, the performance appraisal process starts as soon as you begin to form the team and/or as soon as the team has a purpose and goals. The function of the “and/or” depends on whether you intend to evaluate the employees who are becoming members of the team, the team itself, or both. Here we discuss all three possibilities.

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Team A team is a group of people working together toward specific objectives within a defined operational sphere (Lawrence Holpp, Managing Teams [McGraw-Hill, 1999]).

In the Beginning

Since this chapter focuses on performance appraisal ...

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