BTSR guidebook ~ Training & skills self-evaluation
Strand 3: Maintaining appropriate individual performance review process
This strand looks at the arrangements in place to appraise staff performance against the key objectives and targets of the organisation. Essentially, this includes a performance appraisal system that links individual objectives to those of the organisation, supported by a periodic review process. The appraisal system typically should include an element of self-assessment, interview, documentation of training and review.
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- No provision – no activity undertaken
- Base provision – ad hoc, informal activity undertaken, but not evaluated
- Medium provision – activity undertaken and evaluated
- High provision – structured activity undertaken, evaluated and impact on the business assessed
Language
We have standardised on the term “performance review”. Other common terms include:
- appraisal (or performance appraisal or staff appraisal or employee appraisal or progress appraisal – the same variants apply to the rest of the list too)
- assessment
- evaluation
- feedback
While some specialists are capable of delineating subtle differences between all the above, that need not detain us here.
