Use appraisals to manage performance

What performance targets and appraisals can achieve

To monitor and assess how your employees are performing, it's useful to set out clear objectives, ideally with quantifiable performance targets, so your employees understand what you expect of them.

Defining performance targets for your employees could help you to:

• ensure that every employee's contribution fits into the overall aims of the business
• help individual employees better understand their aims and role within the business
• help employees feel valued
• create standards to measure the quantity and quality of employees' work
• monitor the success of the business
• identify ways to make the business run more efficiently
• identify ways to expand the business

Appraisals

An effective appraisal system will help you to assess your staff against defined objectives. It gives you the chance to give constructive feedback and to praise staff for their good work, which in turn will make them feel valued. It also offers the opportunity to:

• address any problems
• discuss apparent weaknesses
• find solutions

Finally, it will give you the chance to define further objectives for your employees.

Subjects covered in this guide

• Introduction
• What performance targets and appraisals can achieve
• Set up a performance management and appraisal system
• Agree objectives
• Carry out the appraisal
• Rating performance
• Reward good performance
• Here's how staff appraisals help us monitor performance and motivate staff

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