Conducting a Performance Appraisal Interview

Very valuable but managers and subordinates alike are ambivalent

Goals

Organizational: Provides information that can be used in hirings, firings, and pay decisions

Discussions between subordinates and supervisors to navigate how somebody is performing

Evaluation:Feedback for people, create valid data to base decisions off of,help company

Development and Coaching: Motivate, counsel, improve

Individual goals can conflict with organizational goals

Problems

Ambivalence and Avoidance

Feedback and Defensiveness

Worst of all: Avoidance and Defensivness

Potential Solutions

Uncoupling evaluation and development

Choose appropriate data

Eliminating performance appraisal system

Methods

Tell Sell

Tell and listen

Problem solving

Mixed model