ABSTRACT
The performance review should be given at the same time as the wage or salary increase. Annual performance reviews are part of corporate culture and properly handled serve a useful purpose. Unfortunately, most people receiving them or giving them hate them. That is because most performance review formats try to accomplish too much. Designing the form of the performance review, people over time generally incorporate any ideas that could be useful “just in case they apply.” Thus, most performance reviews contain narrow definitions and checklists to be filled out with grading each parameter to force the reviewer into making judgment calls about subjects that may apply to only a handful of people.
