Opinion

Ditch performance reviews and do this instead

It’s that time of the year when many managers are booking performance review meetings. Not so fast, urges Raconteur’s HR columnist, Liz Ryan, who recommends a more constructive alternative

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The end of the year is in sight, which means that it’s performance review season. Many businesses will soon be calculating annual bonuses and salary adjustments. 

That’s fine – determining rewards is a critical business process. But are performance reviews equally important? That’s less clear. Is it vital for someone to know how their manager rates their work over the year? And, most crucially, do such reviews actually help businesses to perform better?

There’s no evidence to suggest that they do. Employees and managers alike hate doing performance reviews and HR hates administering them.