Employee Performance Checklist

Quality of Work

• Clear refusal to do assigned tasks
• Significant increase in errors
• Need repeated instructions
• Repeated errors in spite of increased guidance
• Job take longer than necessary to complete
• Poor decision making
• Reduced quantity of work
• Inconsistent quality/quantity of work
• Behavior that disrupts workflow
• Forgets obviuos or important things
• Procrastination on significant decisions or tasks
• More than usual supervision necessary
• Frequent, unsupported explanation for poor performance
• Noticeable change in written or verbal communication
• Missing deadlines
• Wasting time and materials on the job
• Difficulty in concentration
• Difficulty in remembering direction or detail
• Difficulty in dealing with complex tasks
• Work requiring more time and effort than usual

Attendance

• Arriving late to work
• Excessive sick days
• Instances of leaving work early
• Excessive tardiness
• Having repeated unscheduled absences or tardiness
• Leaving work early for a variety of reasons
• Frequent unexplained disappearances
• Excessive lateness when returning from breaks or lunch

Attitude and Mood

• Having periods of high and then low morale
• Overreacting to criticism
• Avoids talking with supervisor regarding work issues
• Changing moods after lunch or breaks
• Over-sensitivity
• Irritability
• Increasingly tearful
• Persistently boisterous or rambunctious
• Unusual fears
• Lacks appropriate caution
• Makes unfounded accusations towards others
• Blaming others when confronted
• Difficulty remembering instructions, data, behaviour
• Temper tantrums or angry outbursts
• Demanding, rigid, inflexible

Relationship with Others

• Significant change in relationships with co-workers, supervisors
• Complaints from co-workers or subordinates
• More intolerant, resentful of fellow employees
• Frequent arguments
• Verbal abusiveness
• Physical abusiveness
• Persistently withdrawn or less involved with people
• Intentional avoidance of supervisor
• Change in frequency or nature of complaints
• Unusual sensitivity to advice or critique of work
• Difficulty in working with others
• Complaints from outside sources, such as customers
• Attempting to borrow money from co-workers

General Job Performance

• Increased concern about safety offenses involving the employee
• Experiences or causes job accidents
• Interferes with or ignores established procedures
• Inability to follow through on job performance recommendations
• Changes in or unusual personal appearance
• Makes unreliable or false statements
• Excessive use of the phone