Why Go Through the Painful Performance Process:
The performance management blog points to an interesting study by PeopleIQ [the broken link was removed] that says that only 13 percent of employees and managers and 6 percent of CEOs think their organization’s performance appraisal is useful. And 88 percent say their current performance appraisal negatively impacts their opinion of HR.
See also the previous Curious Cat posts on Performance Appraisals.