Precautions in appraisal interview

10 precautions in appraisal interview

1. Acts not attitudes

Never attack personality, educational background, physique, etc. Do not comment on employee’s attitudes.

2. Listen to the recipient

The reactions of the feedback recipient should never be ignored. The appraiser should give feedback when the appraisee is ready to accept it.

3. Descriptive, not evaluative

The feedback should not be judgemental. It should be descriptive and allow the recipient to think and take appropriate action. consider the statements, which reflect this spirit:

4. Future-oriented

Do not dwell on the past; focus on the future, review the past, observe the current performance and use both to improve employee performance in future.

5. Goal-oriented

Each one of us walk along our own path. There may be hurdles on the way. We may overstep and go off the rails. We may obstruct others from realizing their goals.

6. Data-based feedback

Effective feedback gives specific information about where the recipient has gone wrong and gives him data in the form of observations, feelings and other things which his behavior has evoked.

7. Continuous

Feedback should not be an annual ritual carried out in a mechanical way. It should be a continuous, on going process of reinforcing right behaviors and checking wrong ways of doing things.

8. Need based and solicited

Feedback would be effective if the recipient genuinely wants to take it and mends his behaviors that are not in tune with job requirements. It should be such that the recipient could think about it and do something to improve his behavioral responses.

9. Reinforcement

Effective feedback should help a person decide about which style of behavior he should continue to use.

10. Suggestive

The supervisor may offer constructive suggestions aimed at improving the behavior of the recipient. These should however, be in the form of various alternatives open to the recipient for improving his own ways of doing things.

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