Business consultant and author Dr. Alan Colquitt has a succinct message for the conventional job reviews used by much of the business world: Good riddance.
“The one point I try to make is that you need to get more value out of the process,” says Colquitt, the managing partner of Alan Colquitt LLC, a talent-management and organizational-change consulting firm. He’s also the author of Next Generation Performance Management: The Triumph of Science Over Myth and Superstition. “Most of the performance reviews done today are almost compliance-related. It’s insane — not the way you want to think about this process.”
“Managers essentially are
