{"id":1908,"date":"2016-05-18T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:20:23","slug":"appraisals-an-outdated-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/appraisals-an-outdated-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Appraisals \u2013 an outdated institution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"blue\"><strong>What is the development?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Following the theme of our March post on \u2018<a title=\"Doing things differently in HR - is there another way?\" href=\"http:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/doing-things-differently-in-hr-is-there-another-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doing things differently in HR \u2013 is there another way?<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0 we\u2019ve recently collaborated with our friends at <a title=\"The House\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehouse.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The House<\/a>\u00a0 on a series of articles for HR Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these has been written by us on the subject of \u2018Appraisals \u2013 are they really an outdated institution?\u2019\u00a0 It\u2019s just been\u00a0published today on HR Zone, which you can read <a title=\"Appraisals - are they really an outdated institution?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hrzone.com\/lead\/future\/appraisals-are-they-really-an-outdated-institution\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We pose a series of five questions, to challenge current approaches to appraisals, including encouraging you to ask what the overall purpose is and whether your appraisal system reflects the values and culture of your organisation.<\/p>\n<p>This reflects the growing appetite in business to take a fresh look at established processes, including HR, and ask if it really works.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"blue\"><strong>What does this mean in practice for employers?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There is no \u2018one size fits all\u2019 approach to appraisals. What works for one organisation may not work for yours. However, if you really want what you\u2019re doing to be meaningful to both your business and its employees, it is worth just taking a step back from your current approach and asking these five questions, starting with \u2018What\u2019s the overall purpose?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the development? Following the theme of our March post on \u2018Doing things differently in HR \u2013 is there another way?\u2019,\u00a0 we\u2019ve recently collaborated with our friends at The House\u00a0 on a series of articles for HR Zone. The first of these has been written by us on the subject of \u2018Appraisals \u2013 are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/appraisals-an-outdated-institution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appraisals \u2013 an outdated institution?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramsaypaterson.co.uk\/legal-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}