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Appraisal

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

/əˈpreɪzəl/nounCommon term

In management & leadership, appraisal means: A formal assessment of an employee's work over a period, usually in a meeting with their manager; the word is mainly British for a performance review.

In Turkish: performans değerlendirmesi, değerlendirme, ekspertiz

How it is used

Common in UK companies, the public sector and HR documents: annual appraisal, appraisal meeting, appraisal form. The verb appraise is formal. In finance and property, appraisal also means estimating the value of something.

Example sentences

  1. My annual appraisal is in March, so I'm updating my objectives.

  2. The appraisal form asks you to rate yourself before the meeting.

Common collocations

  • annual appraisal
  • appraisal meeting
  • appraisal form
  • staff appraisal
  • performance reviewA regular formal meeting in which a manager and an employee discuss how well the employee has done their job, agree on a rating and set goals for the next period.
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done a piece of work or behaved, given so that they can keep doing what works and improve what does not.
  • objectiveA specific, measurable result that a team or organisation plans to achieve by a certain date, usually as one step towards a wider goal.
  • 360-degree feedbackA way of assessing an employee by collecting feedback from the people around them, such as their manager, colleagues, direct reports and sometimes customers, along with a self-assessment.

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