It has been suggested that all performance appraisal systems be scrapped completely and reference is made to a recent book by Samuel Culbert “Get Rid of the Performance Review”.
Writing for the Financial Times in Business Day today “On Work: Replace appraisals with management” Lucy Kellaway concludes with the following remarks:
“With this delusion stripped away, some managers might take matters into their own hands. They might even start saying “that’s good” and “that’s not so good” at the only helpful time to say such things: when they have just happened. This sort of thing is called managing, and it makes formal appraisals quite unnecessary”.
Even for those whose managers did nothing to fill the gap, there would still be a net gain from scrapping appraisals. Time and energy would be saved and the only two things lost would be cynicism and paranoia”.