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Interpreting and Improving Performance Reviews of Multicultural Employees

Written by Nadia Nassif | Oct 25, 2019 4:27:00 PM

Have you ever encountered a performance review in which a manager criticizes a behavior that’s tied to an employee’s cultural norms rather than to performance issues?

As more multicultural employees join the workforce, organizations are challenged to identify, interpret and assess potentially biased evaluation input on these workers. According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, “while biases can affect any of an organization’s talent decisions, they can be especially harmful when it comes to diversity and inclusion efforts.” And there is perhaps no setting that shapes careers, salaries and lives like annual performance evaluations.

Read the full article at https://www.workforce.com/2019/10/25/interpreting-improving-performance-reviews-multicultural-employees/