Measuring employee performance?
Recently I was asked if time and results were the only things you could use to measure employee performance. Here's a snippet of my response.
The most important thing to remember when measuring performance is that you are trying to measure the things that make the most difference (not just the things that can be measured). The problem is that many of the things that make the most difference are not easily quantifiable.
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