Annual appraisals are performed during the first quarter of each year. The appraisal is performed to help management increase productivity, establish goals for the upcoming year and communicate expectations for each of the employees.
Proper appraisal helps both management and the individual in achieving company’s objectives.
Open communication between manager and employee during the process increases understanding of individual’s role in the organization and makes it easier to employees to talk about their achievements and needs. Based on the annual review, HR department can determine development needs of the staff and prepare accurate analysis of staffing, compensation and training policies.
It usually consists of personal self-appraisal and supervisor’s evaluation.
Glossary:
to increase productivity – zwiększyć produktywność
to establish goals – ustalić cele
upcoming – nadchodzący
communicate expectations – przekazywać oczekiwania
to achieve objectives – osiagać cele
accurate – prawidłowy, dokładny
staffing – obsadzanie stanowisk,zatrudnienie
This is the basics. And in a moment you’ll see how to do it and more importantly how NOT to do it. 🙂
Exercise 1 – pre-watching:
Use the verbs given to make collocations:
document discover set identify recognise explore
1. strategies for improvement
2. future goals and career paths
3. employee’s strengths and weaknesses
4. employee’s accomplishments
5. employee’s performance
6. expectations
Now, watch the film and learn how not to conduct a performance review:
Exercise 2
Match the words with their meaning in the context (according to Karen Thornton):
review evaluation appraisal
1. the formal meeting with the employee
2. assigning a rate to the employee’s performance
3. the overall process
Now that you know how not to perform an appraisal, in the series of classes we’re going to show you how to make it smooth and effective. We’ll start from preparation. You’re going to watch the second part of Karen’s guideline.
Before you watch:
Exercise 3:
Match the words with theirs definitions:
1. shortfall
2. accomplishment
3. prior to
4. bias
5. reinforce
a) an opinion which influence your behaviour towards something
b) lack of something
c) before
d) to make an idea or belief stronger
e) something difficult that you succeed in doing
Now, watch the film and check your answers:
Exercise 4:
Once you’ve watched the guidelines, complete the summary with the correct words:
1. Two weeks (1) ________ to your performance review you should give a self-(2)________ form to your employee.
2. Take out the employee’s job (3) ________, performance (4) ________ and any performance documentation you may have on file.
3. What you don’t want to do is to read the employees self-evaluation form and then complete your own. This could create a (5) ________.
4. Highlight anything that (6) ________ to you, especially areas of (7) ________ between your evaluation and the employee’s self-evaluation.
5. You’ll also want to tag areas you can positively (8) ________ during the session. This will balance the evaluation as well as service time to positively reinforce behaviour.
These are just initial comments so if you want to read more on the topic and learn some more vocabulary, come back to us next week 🙂
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Key:
Ex. 1
1-identify; 2-explore; 3-discover; 4-recognise; 5-document; 6-set;
Ex. 2
1-evaluation; 2-appraisal; 3-review
Ex. 3
1-b); 2-e); 3-c); 4-a); 5-d)
Ex. 4
(1)- prior; (2)- evaluation; (3)- description; (4)- goals; (5)- bias; (6)- stands out; (7)- disagreement; (8)- reinforce;
