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Is Jennifer Right About The Need For Evaluate The Workers Formally? The Managers?

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9-37. Is Jennifer right about the need to evaluate the workers formally? The managers? Why or why not?
Jennifer is, without question, right that all of their employees, from managers to the lowest level employee need to be evaluated formally. The informal way that her father was doing it was not providing the most important answer to the question that all employees want to know is “How am I doing?” According to Erven (2013) several often-heard reasons for not doing employee evaluations need to be dismissed, such as a manager stating “Good employees know they are good and bad employees know they are bad,” or “They take too much time.” Jennifer’s father was guilty of this and probably all his managers too while taking the lead from him as the owner. This in itself is unfair to employees and not good for continued business. It’s important that managers let people know how they are doing, because employees need and want to know, in a structured and formal manner with feedback.
In an article from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management [OPM] (n.d.) it stated that “without feedback, you 're walking blind, at best, you 'll accidentally reach your goal, and at worst, you will wander aimlessly through the dark, never reaching your destination.” Feedback is a critical element in a managers “toolbox” when evaluating employees. It gives an employee a view of how good or bad their previous performance was and what or if they need to improve in their performance. It also reduces

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