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4 useful types of employee evaluations

Many different types of appraisals exist! Every company has its model that they follow. From trendy to traditional; simple to complex. Some of these appraisals have worked great by bringing clear results while others have failed miserably. The appraisal types and systems should be unique to every company and be able to bring inaccurate results. If you are searching for an employee evaluation method that provides accurate, meaningful data, ensure that it accommodates the culture of your workplace and remember to keep it very simple. If you have no idea what type of employee evaluation to adapt for your company, check out the list below and borrow a leaf from them. First, you must analyze the parties involved with various appraisal methods. They include Feedback from the manager/supervisor, Feedback from the employee being evaluated and feedback from other stakeholders may be peers or customers.


Useful types of employee evaluations

  • Trait focused employee appraisal
    The trait focused system centralizes on traits such as dependability, punctuality, helplessness, etc. Supervisors measure employees by indicating specific traits that each worker exhibits. This trait focused system uses a simple checklist that comes with ratings that the employee chooses from for easy evaluation. Trait focused system is popular with customer service departments.
  • Behavior-focused employee evaluation
    This system judges the employee's actions using a rating scale that measures specific behaviors. Four rating scales are used in this evaluation system. They include Mixed standard scales, graphic rating scales, behaviorally anchored rating scales and forced-choice rating scales. Each of this behavior focused evaluation system work in a slightly different way to give credible results to the management or the employer. The scales rely on very specific evaluators that score the employers actions to either pass or fail.
  • Management by objective
    It is a modern method that requires the employee and the supervisor to agree on a set of objectives before the evaluation. This process relies heavily on goal setting and constructive feedback for it to be successful. It being a new method it has eliminated some biased traditional thinking and enacted a modern way of evaluation.
  • Psychological appraisals
    This method assesses the employee's intellectual ability, analytical skills, emotional stability and any other psychological traits that use the psychological evaluation process. This evaluation is useful to the employee in preparing, developing training methods and placing them in the right teams. Most employees have been helped to discover strengths they did not think they carry and motivated to use them.

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