Employees Who Are Loyal, Help Out, and Voice Their Views Often Get Higher Performance Ratings

An employee’s job performance should be related to that employee’s performance evaluation score. For example, the highest performing employees should receive the highest performance appraisal ratings. Today’s best managers know that items other than job performance can influence an employee’s performance evaluation. Employees who go beyond their regular job description to help out other employees may receive higher evaluations than employees who don’t help others. Employees who voice their views and offer good, constructive criticism, and who are loyal can also receive higher performance appraisals compared to employees who don’t voice their views, or who aren’t loyal. Today’s best managers use all of this information when evaluating their employees.

Source: Whiting, S. W., Podsakoff, P. M., & Pierce, J. R. 2008. Effects of task performance, helping, voice, and organizational loyalty on performance appraisal ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 125-139.

Simple Principles: To Think Big And Achieve Success.

Success is different for everyone. What you define as success should be what you aspire to have and to become for your life. The book stresses that individuals should become people of increasing value. The book offers 200 simple principles for achieving success, and is written around three main areas: increased productivity, importance of networking, and taking the initiative and making things happen. Simple principles include: identify the skills that you have, then put them to use, never eat alone, write your own blog, be sure not to burn bridges, don’t wait to be told, make your voice heard, and don’t be afraid to break the mold.

Simple Principles: To Think Big And Achieve Success. By Alex A. Lluch and Helen Eckman, 2008, WS Publishing Group, San Diego, CA, ISBN: 978-1-934386-07-1.