Using performance appraisals
You as a manager have responsibilities for appraising the people who report to you. Most managers frankly hate doing performance appraisals. It's one of the least popular things that managers are asked to do. There are any number of reasons why managers don't like performance appraisals. I'm gonna give you some clues as to why that's true as well as some cues as to what might make it pleasant. But, I have to admit, it's not an easy thing to do, and it's hard to create a system that most people like.
There's a very fundamental reason for that. It involves some pretty important issues to most human beings. That is, what they're like, what their worth is, both financially and from a social point of view and a performance point of view. So you're often having to deliver not very pleasant messages to people, and guess what? They don't like to hear negative news. I guess that's pretty inevitable. Let me start just for a moment by saying a little bit about performance appraisals and performance appraisals relative to pay systems.Source: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/human-resources-pay-strategy/using-performance-appraisals