01/01/2013
Some managers tend to evaluate team members based on their most recent positive or negative encounter. This happens most often when a manager has no record of an employee’s performance over the past months or year. It’s not a good way to conduct a review, and it’s not fair to the employee. An increasingly popular and easily implemented solution is to create an employee performance log.
12/30/2012
For an employee to win a discrimination lawsuit, he has to show that he was qualified for the job he held. Some employers assume that if they disciplined the employee for poor performance, that proves he wasn’t qualified. But a court might not see it that way if you trained and tested him before putting him to work.