Appraisal Quote by W. Edwards Deming

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

— Anonymous

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved…

— W. Edwards Deming

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

— Leon Festinger

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained…

— Harold Geneen

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

— Jack Welch

Individual performance doesn't mean anything to me.

— Rex Chapman

“Poor performance is rarely because the person is incompetent or a bad person. It’s typically a result of a gap in skill (which is…

— Laszlo Bock

Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect -…

— Daniel H. Pink

People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

— Albert Bandura

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

— John Eliot

“One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the “part” with ignorance of the “whole.”

— Pearl Zhu

For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent…

— Albert Bandura