09/01/2022
Dear Friends,
Did you know research shows that 71% of the American employees thought that their performance evaluations weren’t fair?
Would you like to know how to change that with just 1 small adjustment to the process?
Don’t rank individual performance against others in their evaluation.
Research shows even when people are given a positive performance evaluation (you did better than..) they still perceived it to be less fair than had they been compared against their own performance over a given time period.
Food for thought:
- How will our children’s mental well-being be impacted if we are comparing them with others?
- How will the relationship be with our spouse be if we are comparing them with others?
So, why should it be any different when we are evaluating performance at work?
Why do people hate performance reviews? Maybe because, according to surveys, most of us don’t think they’re fair. A team of researchers set out to examine this in more detail. In four studies based on the data collected from 1,024 American and Dutch employees, they compared two types of referenc...
