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There are a variety of common issues that supervisors should be aware of when evaluating employees through performance reviews. Training supervisors properly is an essential step in avoiding mistakes that can lead to lawsuits and other problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n Generally, supervisors give employees inflated performance appraisals because they fear honest evaluations will damage their working relationships. Evaluations should be comparative and should reflect reality. Inflated performance appraisals give employees a false sense of security, deprive them of an opportunity to improve, and create litigation risks for the company.<\/p>\n Management should be alert to possible bias when performing evaluations. Bias can be based on race, sex, age, religion, educational accomplishments, past jobs, or anything else that is not job-related, even if subtle or unintentional. If the employee is a favorite or well-liked, a higher rating than the performance justifies may be given. Reviewers also tend to overlook certain weaknesses that are similar to those that he or she personally possesses.<\/p>\n Supervisors place employees at the average often because it is the easy thing to do. The midpoint avoids the difficulty of making and justifying a more accurate assessment. Supervisors do not do anyone a favor by not using the rating scale accurately and completely.<\/p>\n Supervisors frequently fail to understand the rating system, often providing comments that are inconsistent with the rating. This creates a credibility problem for employers in litigation suits.<\/p>\n Evaluations may reflect the shortcomings of management. If a supervisor establishes unrealistic goals and then negatively evaluates an employee because he or she has not met the goals, the supervisor creates problems for the company.<\/p>\n Those evaluating employees must be completely familiar with all aspects of the employees\u2019 jobs to ensure complete and accurate evaluations.<\/p>\n Appraisals should cover the complete period of time since the last evaluation, and supervisors should be familiar with prior evaluations for goal-setting and appraisal. However, they should not repeatedly look backward and bring up problems that existed in the past, nor should they focus only on very recent improvements.<\/p>\n The reviewer often does not set aside sufficient time to allow for a meaningful performance evaluation. Careful planning and scheduling will enable the reviewer to conduct a more effective evaluation.<\/p>\n Meaningful and constructive comments and explanations are critical not only if an evaluation must be defended in court, but also for employee improvement.<\/p>\n It\u2019s much easier for a supervisor to say that an employee is \u201cimproving\u201d than to say that the employee\u2019s performance is not at the expected or desired level. The evaluation should say explicitly that performance is substandard. Evaluations should not explain deficiencies but rather identify them and establish a basis and strategy for improvement.<\/p>\n Find an appropriate balance. A general comment begs for supporting details while being too specific makes it seem like the employee is being picked on.<\/p>\n The main purpose of an evaluation is to identify deficiencies and develop a plan to correct them. Employee assistance programs (EAPs) may provide an opportunity for the employee to address problems outside of work that are affecting workplace behaviors and performance, so rather than try to provide support for problems that are not work-related, suggest that the employee make use of the EAP, if there is one.<\/p>\n Stay focused directly on the problem, not on the person.<\/p>\n Reviewers often do not follow through with suggested corrective action, decreasing the effectiveness of the performance evaluation.<\/p>\n Regardless of whether comments and ratings are negative or positive, they should always be explained to the employee. Discuss with the employee how to improve on issues, or encourage the person to keep up the good work.<\/p>\n \u00a9 2024 Zywave, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n isolved, GTM\u2019s payroll and HR management platform<\/a>, helps you drive accountability by providing real-time input on performance all year, instead of just at the annual performance review. It helps your organization monitor and report on performance with flexible, customized cycles. Managers and supervisors can use pre-loaded review templates.\u00a0Request a free quote<\/a>\u00a0for more information and to see a demo of isolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are 15 common performance review mistakes that supervisors and managers face when conducting employee performance reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[49,18,220,86],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-15688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtm-biz-blog-isolved","tag-culture","tag-employer-policies","tag-performance-management","tag-performance-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15693,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions\/15693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=15688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. Rating inflation<\/h2>\n
2. Prejudice or bias<\/h2>\n
3. Failure to use the full rating scale<\/h2>\n
4. Inconsistencies in scoring weighting or defining factors<\/h2>\n
5. Unrealistic goals or objectives<\/h2>\n
6. Inadequate observation<\/h2>\n
7. Inappropriate time span for review<\/h2>\n
8. Not allotting sufficient time<\/h2>\n
9. Lack of comments<\/h2>\n
10. Misleading comments<\/h2>\n
11. Too much or too little detail<\/h2>\n
12. Acting like a psychologist or psychiatrist<\/h2>\n
13. Focusing on the employee instead of the issue<\/h2>\n
14. Not following through<\/h2>\n
15. Not explaining feedback thoroughly<\/h2>\n
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