What makes EPDS different from a performance appraisal?
The EPDS process consists of an annual cycle that involves supervisors and employees setting job-specific goals that focus on achieving work results, demonstrating necessary workplace behaviors and identifying required learning needs. Although there is a formal review at the end of the EPDS cycle, its purpose is to compare employee achievements to the goals set out during the planning phase. In this way, employees are evaluated against meaningful criteria that were clearly identified at the start of the entire EPDS process and have been regularly discussed during the focusing / realignment / Mid-Course Adjustment phase.
