The Most Common Managerial Mistakes

Robert Bacal wrote a great article abou the most commons managerial mistakes. A sample:

Since there are a fair number of errors made by managers in the performance appraisal and employee review process, we’ll approach this set in brief point form. Stay tuned since we’ll be dealing with a few more performance appraisal errors in a future article in this series. Until then here’s the first five.

1. Focusing on the Form: Most managers are given specific forms to fill out to record the results of performance appraisals and reviews. Apart from the fact that most forms aren’t really effective in creating better performance, it’s easy for managers to believe that performance appraisal is about, and only about, getting the forms in on time (which they don’t). Performance appraisal isn’t about the form. It’s about the process.

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