Performance Reviews: A Complete How-To Guide

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Performance Reviews: A Complete How-To Guide

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HR is one of the hottest potatoes on your plate, with issues that change every day. Gender discrimination, always a thorny one, gains force with the advent of #MeToo and #TimesUp … immigration policies that are the stuff of daily headlines trickle down into the workplace … and your workforce grows both younger and older at the same time.

That’s why Performance Reviews: A Complete How-To Guide features up-to-the-minute guidance – tips and tricks, help and hints, so every HR staffer can do the job right.

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Let’s start with those forms. Those precious forms.

There’s one for almost every situation HR managers face. Download them with a click or two, that’s how convenient they are. Modify them however your HR staff sees fit. The amount of time and effort these forms will save – by themselves – will repay the cost of Performance Reviews: A Complete How-To Guide many, many times over.

  • 1. 360-Degree Performance Review (Employee Assessment of Manager)
  • 2. Career Development Discussion Guide
  • 3. Employee Pre-Appraisal Performance Assessment
  • 4. Intermediate Performance Assessment
  • 5. Letter for Performance Improvement Plan
  • 6. Managerial Assessment
  • 7. Managerial Self-Assessment
  • 8. Model Performance Appraisal Form
  • 9. Performance Appraisal Checklist
  • 10. Performance Appraisal Follow-Up
  • 11. Performance Evaluation for Non-Supervisory Employees
  • 12. Performance Feedback Log
  • 13. Performance Improvement Plan
  • 14. Performance Management Audit
  • 15. Performance Problem Analysis Guide
  • 16. Pre-Interview Checklist for Employees
  • 17. Pre-Performance Improvement Plan Written Warning
  • 18. Problem Analysis and Corrective Action Plan
  • 19. Progressive Appraisal Meeting Language
  • 20. Sample Letter Announcing Upward Appraisal
  • 21. Sample Performance Appraisal Interview Memo
  • 22. Sample Policy on Performance Reviews
  • 23. Self-Audit of the Appraisal Interview
  • 24. Self-Evaluation
  • 25. Statement of Employee Goals
  • 26. Summary of Department Goals
  • 1. The Job Description
  • 2. Discrimination Check
  • 3. Performance Standards
  • 4. Evaluating ‘Intangible’ Traits
  • 5. Measuring Expectations
  • 6. Recording Performance
  • 7. What to Include in Employee Logs
  • 8. Rating Scales
  • 9. Identifying Performance Problems
  • 10. Anticipating the Review
  • 11. Discussing Performance Problems
  • 12. Avoiding Assessment Problems
  • 13. Reducing the Risk of Bias
  • 14. Solving Performance Problems

The next time-and-effort-saver? The 14 audits you find within the covers of this fat three-ring binder. HR staff exists to help you get the most from every employee. These audits make that happen.

Performance Reviews: A Complete How-To Guide

Performance Reviews: A Complete How-to Guide is packed with the essentials you need to get your HR staff on track –

  • Forms from basic to advanced – 26 of them
  • 14 audits covering every facet of performance reviews
  • Advice and guidance, tips and tricks
  • And, icing on the cake, lawyer-tested cases and counsel.
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Check out the advice right here, things all your HR people must know ...

The termination tactic that almost GUARANTEES a lawsuit.

Making the termination experience unnecessarily unpleasant. Courts and juries consistently come down on HR officials who commit this blunder. And even if you win in court, you lose, because defending against a claim takes tons of money and time.

The thing NEVER to say in a warning letter.

Don’t let HR people breathe a word about restrictions on how well the employee will be rated at evaluation time, especially if a bonus depends on the rating. A court held that such a restriction amounts to an adverse action (Goldfaden v. Wyeth Laboratories).

When good reviews aren’t good enough.

Courts often side with fired employees who can show years of positive reviews. Great way for HR to fight back: Show the firing had a legitimate business reason (Nemec v. Wal-Mart).

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