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Your friend, Robert Bacal considered the following article
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Performance Appraisal - What IS The Point? From Blaming To Better Performance
By Robert Bacal

How can performance appraisals be valuable if managers and employers don't
understand the point? It's time to stop focusing on the past, and blaming in
performance appraisals, and look to the future to improve performance. When
managers look to the future the whole appraisal process becomes more useful, and
much more comfortable.

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