Why Let Performance Appraisals Like Taxes Fill Us with Dread?
The news these days is full of discussions of proposed corporate tax increases, something business leaders want passionately to avoid, except for a few multi-billionaires. Yet there is another activity that rivals paying taxes for the sense it evokes of doing the utterly thankless and truly distasteful—performance appraisals. How draining, demoralizing, and unproductive they usually seem to be! Consequently, most companies take one of three approaches to this annual ritual of self-punishment: Conduct performance appraisals