Performance Reviews: What are the stakes for employees and managers?
23 August 2023
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What is the purpose of these performance reviews? What are the benefits? This new ReKrute survey, conducted with a sample of employees and managers, takes a close look at this practice, which is becoming increasingly widespread in companies of all sizes and sectors.
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1. Performance reviews in a few figures
The survey showed that more than 67% of employees have performance reviews at least once a year. The average duration of performance reviews varies between 15 and 30 minutes. However, it appears that only 56% of employees leave these meetings feeling motivated, while 74% of managers think it motivated their direct reports. This gap is significant enough to raise questions about the real dialogue established during these meetings.
2. Performance reviews: what topics should be discussed?
On the managers' side, 61% of them say they conduct performance reviews with their teams. The average size of the teams managed by the managers surveyed is 29 employees. The main follow-ups to these reviews are the setting of new objectives and the definition of a new action plan.
Analysis of the topics usually discussed shows that employees are much less inclined to exchange than managers during the reviews: some topics, such as problems with the manager, are rarely discussed during the reviews.
3. Training and tests for effective meetings
It appears that the techniques to optimize the quality and efficiency of these annual meetings are not equally mastered. To make them a real performance tool, it is essential to plan to train managers/employees, or even to use tests that measure the level of motivation, for example. *
The survey was conducted with 2308 Moroccans, mostly young professionals aged 25-35 (59%), working in a large company (49%, compared to 36% in SMEs and 15% in VSEs). 64% of respondents are employees, and 36% are managers.
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