Current research indicates many antidepressant medications for social anxiety disorder to be useless, even in the short-term. About 15% of our in-person socially-anxious people are helped by antidepressants.
Performance Management & Compensation. Defining Performance Standards. Performance standards provide the employee with specific performance expectations for each major duty. They are the observable behaviors and actions which explain how the job is to be done, plus the results that are expected for satisfactory job performance. The purpose of performance standards is to communicate expectations. Keep in mind that good performance typically involves more than technical expertise.
While performance elements tell employees what they have to do, the standards tell them how well they have to do it. The first article in this series defined and reviewed the characteristics of critical, non-critical, and additional performance elements. This article reviews the principles of writing good standards that can be used effectively to appraise employee performance of those elements.