TY - JOUR AU - Foster, Paula AB - Business Practices Practices Committee A column the ABC Business by sponsored Barbara D. Editor Davis, The of Tennessee University Memphis, In this issue: Paula Foster Foster Communications PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS are written man- commonly by in the business a fact known most of agers world, by professors Business communication textbooks usu- business communication. include at least one or two exercises related to the ally optional often as of a unit on performance appraisal, part positive emphasis or Yet the is not you-attitude. performance appraisal genre gener- considered an essential of the business communi, ally component cation curriculum. Practitioners a much value than we do on the place higher per- see it as one of a class of formance member docu- appraisal. They ments known as documentation. Perfor- collectively performance mance documentation is taken very seriously by practitioners, and those Human Resources especially by managers directing for it is a form of internal communica- departments, high-stakes tion can roles in certain that that play significant legal disputes arise later on. To documentation is may practitioners, performance the written record of an called ongoing process &dquo;performance a continuous of oral management,&dquo; involving complex, interplay and written interactions. Interview with on Performance Documentation TI - Performance Documentation JF - Business Communication Quarterly DO - 10.1177/108056990206500212 DA - 2002-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/performance-documentation-u1KinlKfkv SP - 108 EP - 114 VL - 65 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -