Assignment On Work Performance Appraisal

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Week 3 Appraisal Assignment
James Bailey
BUS 303: Human Resource Management
Instructor: Reece
December 14, 2014

Work Performance Appraisal
Our text-book describes performance appraisals as the process for which an employee is assessed (Youssef, 2012). Usually a manager or a HR manager will sit down with employees and talk about how they have done over the past year. They will talk about the employees strengths and weaknesses that the manger has seen and will also talk about how to improve on the weaknesses or if everything has gone right for the employee they will talk about where a better place may be for having someone with the particular strength that this employees has. Usually this is the time of year that raises or promotions age given or even for some of the lucky ones bonuses are handed out. Now in my industry, which is the construction of pipelines for natural gas and oil companies, we don’t usually have written performance reviews. We have more in the lines of verbal reviews due to the short amount of time that an employee is with a company. Usually in our line of work if an employee makes it the first two weeks then he or she can pretty much feel safe in staying the remainder of the job. When I was starting new jobs and I had the union hall send me people to put on my crew I gave most a week to show me they can keep up. I will correct them on what they are doing wrong within the first day or two and If by the fourth or fifth day

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