AI in HRInspirationsFire or Promote? What Criteria to Use When Evaluating Your Employees
When evaluating, rewarding, promoting, and leading your subordinates, you must consider their overall performance, productivity, weaknesses, and strengths. But how do you objectively evaluate your employees’ performance? What criteria should you take into account? We’ll answer these questions in today’s article.
Don’t Just Look at the Numbers
The first rule is simple—you must not only look at the numbers. You cannot fully express the quality of an employee purely in financial and numerical terms. If you evaluate employees solely based on numbers, you may end up rewarding workers whose success is based on the less visible work of undervalued colleagues.
Seek Feedback from Multiple Colleagues
To truly evaluate the qualities of an employee objectively, it’s good to ask for feedback from several people who work closely with them. This way, you will gain a more comprehensive view of their work from multiple angles and might appreciate their contributions in areas you hadn’t considered before.
Discuss Areas of Concern with Your Subordinate
Evaluating your subordinate should always be done in collaboration with them. Discuss all the feedback you receive about their performance, and give them the chance to respond to any negative feedback about their work.
Consider the Specifics of the Role
Even though your subordinates may officially hold the same position, it would be a mistake to measure everyone with the same standard and not differentiate when evaluating them. Every role has its own specifics and nuances in terms of what is expected of the employee. Keep these specifics in mind when evaluating individual subordinates.
Taken from HRNews, Entrepreneur 17.12. 2025
