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The biggest misconception of managers and HR professionals is that they believe that anyone can do seemingly simple, mundane tasks. For this, it is considered sufficient to divide the work into its parts, then to describe in detail how the work is to be done and then to supervise it. However, even the simplest job requires special skills. Organizational performance is based on the interplay of three factors: people, management quality and organizational culture. This is similar to the relationship between good seed, favorable climate and favorable soil needed to produce a good harvest. Detailed descriptions and explanations that break the work down into its component parts only enable “average” performance. As a result, after a while, I find that performance appraisal systems are forced to reward average performance.
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