Archive for March, 2011

Performance reviews are supposed to be an objective evaluation of an employee’s performance, based on measurable criteria.  But how often does that happen? And how often does a job lend itself to actual  objective metrics?

Samual Culbert, a professor in the Anderson School of Management  at UCLA,  is the author of  “Get Rid of the Performance Review!  How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing-and Focus on What Really Matters.”

He asserts that performance reviews are subjective and based on how comfortable your boss ...