Employee Evaluations

The purpose is to learn more about your employee’s strengths and weaknesses, offer constructive feedback for skill development in the future, and assist with goal setting. Here are some of the benefits employee evaluations can offer:

1. Aligning personal roles to business goals
An employee evaluation is a chance to make sure everyone understands the organization’s vision and goals and how their work fits into the bigger picture. It clarifies how individual performance drives organizational performance.

2. A clear understanding of job roles
Employee evaluations enable individuals to think about their role within the organization and clarify areas where they have questions. When employees and supervisors clearly understand their job duties, any ambiguities in the workplace are eliminated. Each person is accountable for their work and responsibilities.

3. Regular feedback about performance
Regular feedback contributes to better all-around communication in the workplace. Employee evaluations help to identify an individual’s strengths and weaknesses and, most importantly, give employees a better understanding of expectations.

4. Career development
The employee evaluations present the opportunity to plan for and set objectives to further develop an employee’s career. They are an important component of performance management. Performance management helps them gain additional training or mentoring, which can be a basis for HR’s development of future succession plans.

5. Rewards for good performance
Performance management offers a variety of rewards beyond just compensation that show gratitude for a job well done, such as time off and bonuses. The prospect of a better than ‘exceeds expectations’ performance appraisal – one where it is recognized that you’ve gone above and beyond – is an incentive to perform well and may open the door to career advancements in the future.