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The performance review process

The performance review process

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The performance review process

- Suppose you're an employee who's just been told by your boss that it's time for your annual review. Suddenly, you're overcome with a deep sense of dread and foreboding. You think you've had a pretty good year but suppose the boss doesn't see things the way you do. More importantly, how will the boss's judgment affect the pay raise you're expecting? If pay for performance means anything, it means that there needs to be some judgment by a person in authority about your performance so they can tie that judgment to decisions about pay. So I want to help you understand how organizations link pay to performance through performance reviews. In the US, about 90% of all organizations use performance reviews as a basis for pay decisions yet over the last decade, there have been vast changes in how reviews are done and how frequently they are done. At a general level, reviews serve as a basis for management decisions such as whom to promote, whom to let go or how to make adjustments in pay and…

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