Manager-Employee Feedback and Development: Why Is It so Hard?

This model offers methods to overcome the barriers to achieving regular, ongoing feedback.

The current climate surrounding performance appraisals leans toward the abandonment of the administrative exercise we all have come to despise and, instead, replace it with a feedback culture of continuous exchanges between manager and direct report. The solution is not new, so why has it not been implemented in more organizations?

Barriers

There are three barriers to regular, ongoing feedback.

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