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Get Rid of the Performance Review!?!

By Nathaniel Rottenberg on February 20, 2009 in Thought Leadership

Performance reviews are hotly contested part of big company life.  In a recent Wall Street Journal article Get Rid of the Performance Review, Samuel A. Culbert, a UCLA Professor, even goes as far as to say:  “It destroys morale, kills teamwork, and hurts the bottom line.”

Have you found performance reviews helpful or do they in fact do more harm than good?

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  • http://www.thepalmerstongroup.com Daniel Berkal

    Undoubtedly performance reviews cause a whole slew of problems. By placing such an integral emphasis on the review process itself, companies are completely ignoring the psychological ramifications that the exercise has, both on an individual and group level.

    Employees often find themselves in an environment where the feedback loop is too large, and behaviors and activities leading up to the review date can be weighted by the review unevenly. Good performance in December can counter poor performance in August, and employees know this.

    The proper ascription of behavior is essential for the feedback game to work. If one knows how to play the system, or get played by the system… it all becomes useless.

    db

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