employee performance appraisal. The actual performance appraisal is given to employees

during a time of year when it is appropriate for the manager or the company to evaluate

the performance of that individual. There are many types of performance appraisals that

can be offered to an individual. There could be a 360 that's offered when that individual

will answer questions based on the work itself, they will then ask fellow employees, colleagues,

their manager, someone maybe in HR or another department who would also fill out a 360 based

on that same individual. Then they would receive feedback based on their work performance,

their attitude, they're taking initiative, their ability to do the job, their competency

in doing the job, whether they're creative, strategic, what is their attitude as far as

being approachable, whether they're aloof or approachable. So it drills into the person's

performance as well as who the person is and how that person behaves. Then there could

be a performance appraisal that would be just on the skills of the individual. So you could

be a manufacturing company when they do a performance appraisal based on skills only,

it could be the aptitude to work a machine or the aptitude to make a product and when

you're in a highly sensitive secure environment and there are dangerous tools around or dangerous

chemicals, it could be the performance appraisal is based on just the skills alone. Most often

than not though, they're going to be looking at not only their skills and how well they

do their job based on their skills, but how are they doing their job, how are they actually

performing their jobs, are there mistakes made, if so, how have those mistakes been

resolved, what is their attitude in the workplace and how have they addressed issues such as

harmony in the workplace or diversity in the workplace. So there may be some issues that

would need to be addressed to that employee once the performance appraisal is over, so

the employee would have a road map to improve, a road map to continue to improve or a road

map to greatly improve or they would then be removed from the job if they do not show

significant improvement within a certain length of time. So basically the performance appraisal

is really good, it keeps everybody checked with how well they're doing, how, what they

can expect for maybe the future job and then how they can perform at a higher level based

on the feedback that they get from the appraisal.