Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead

By Thomas Coens, M. Jenkins. 2000

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The feedforward interview (2010, unknown): “Comparing FFI to traditional performance appraisal reviews is tricky because performance appraisal reviews have questionable utility (Coens & Jenkins, 2000; Smither, London, & Reilly, 2005).”
Explaining the Weak Relationship Between Job Performance and Ratings of Job Performance (2008, unknown): “Coen and Jenkins (2000)”
Performance Appraisal, Performance Management and Improving Individual Performance: A Motivational Framework (2006, background): “Lastly, in the past few years, there has been growing interest in the practice community for what has been termed 'non-traditional' appraisal systems (e.g., Coens and Jenkins, 2000; Lawler, 2000).”
Looking Forward to Performance Improvement: A Field Test of the Feedforward Interview for Performance Management (2015, background): “In light of these findings, some researchers have advocated abolishing performance appraisals (e.g., Coens & Jenkins, 2000).”