If the annual performance review period brings about stress and dysfunction in your workplace, you're not alone. Despite studies highlighting the inherent unreliability of people in objectively rating each other's performance due to biases, leaders continue to be tasked with assessing team members.
Unsurprisingly, the subjective and unjust nature of these performance reviews can destroy trust and psychological safety in teams. For example, new international psychosocial standards note that people can experience the........