What is the purpose of the performance review meetings (evaluation) in addition to evaluating the performance of an employee?

The evaluation is one of the most important step toy encourage the employee to improve himself, if he not doing well or doing well . And to the company it's very important to know what to do and what to expect.

Accentuate the communication culture, enhance solidarity within one group and identify any improvement opportunities. 

• ·         Learn what makes employees happy.
• ·         Foster a culture of open communication
• ·         Learn what areas they need personal growth in
• ·         Learn what they’re doing right.
• ·         Ideas for the company may emerge.

Employee performance and Evaluation Meetings not only Helps us in Understanding Strengths and Weakness of each Employee but Also also helps us in understanding Individual personal and professional concerns of each Employee.

Evaluation is always against a reference.

Performance evaluation is performed against clear objectives provided to the employee before time.

Most of the times, employer just use this practice to exploit employee's situation.

The main objectives of doing performing evaluation are;

How did the employee perform against given objective/set targets

                If the performance is100%, the employee must be rewarded

                If not, find out the hurdles

How is employee emerged during those times, and how can the new skills be used to grow business

What is the employee development opportunity

etc. etc.

This is one of the best concepts of employee motivation and control.

Now-a-day this is just a mean of filling some papers and look good.

 

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Besides evaluating the performance, review meetings are an important part of the performance review process for the below reasons:

 

 -It is a fair opportunity for both the employee and employer for expectation setting at the beginning itself, deciding the standard of performance, current performance, strengths, areas of improvement, career path for progress etc. At the end of the performance review process, the employee should not be surprised with the rating/outcome. The result should be an expected one thereby leading to happy, satisfied and motivated employees

-Encourages open communication between different levels 

-Important for employer branding

Performance review meetings generally are held periodically to assess the performance of business units and the company as a whole. Targets achieved, and  the midcourse corrections needed are discussed.

There are certain aspects which the employee do not want to be documented but have the desire to express if opportunities are received to talk face to face.  Actually the personal performance review meetings are important as good as an interview with employees confidence and knowledge of the work with involvement. This will help to understand many problems and solve them constructively giving scope for employee development and promotions by keeping registered of the interaction in the mind of reviewing personals. Many pre conditioned notions can be changed and that may lead to personal welfare of the employees.