Performance appraisal‐failed or neglected?

Performance appraisal schemes have been with us for many years yet are still little used. On a public course for junior management it is rare to find more than a third of the delegates from companies who have such a scheme. Even among this third there are many who have not had an appraisal interview in the last 12 months. Performance appraisal as a management tool has obviously failed—or has it?