HR Basics: Giving Employee Feedback

HR Basics is a series of short lessons, designed to highlight what you need to know about a particular human resource management topic. In today’s HR Basics, we explore giving employee feedback, its importance and how the best managers approach feedback with employees. Employee feedback is the core of personal and professional growth. Feedback can help an employee get better at what they do, and surprisingly employees crave feedback. Research shows most managers don't provide enough feedback, and when they do, they either make it too negative or are too vague while trying to keep it positive. Managers who scored in the top 10 percent on giving feedback had employees who were three times more engaged than employees with leaders scoring in the bottom 10 percent. The study also revealed that the bottom 10 percent of leaders had employees who were three times more likely to think about quitting.