Employee evaluations: How much has really changed in the last 100 years?

As new ways of work are evolving, such as the adoption of cross-functional teams, and distributed/virtual work environments, companies need to find new ways to manage employee performance. For nearly everyone working today, annual employee evaluations are as status quo as coffee breaks and bi-weekly paychecks (direct deposited of course). But have you ever wondered what incited this practice in the first place? Employee Evaluations – The Early Years At the turn of the 2oth Century, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor (regarded as the father of scientific management) wanted to improve industrial efficiency. He measured every part of…

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