10.01. Review
10.02. Purpose of the Performance Review
10.03. Methods of Performance Review
10.04. Establishing or Changing the Method of Review
10.05. Individual Written Review at the Request of a Staff Member
10.06. Notification of New Employees
10.07. Relationship to Annual Merit
Job effectiveness and accountability as well as career development can be improved through increased communications between academic staff and their supervisors. One component of this communication is performance review, whether accomplished through department, team, or group meetings, individual performance reviews, or other one-on-one meetings. The diversity of programs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has created an environment in which many methods of performance reviews have been developed to meet specialized needs of different units. Units are encouraged to develop, implement and maintain review procedures that best meet their needs.
Academic staff shall be reviewed annually in a manner appropriate to their work setting and responsibilities. Absent a review document in an employee’s personnel file, it shall be assumed that the employee’s performance has been at least satisfactory.
The performance review is intended to serve various purposes, including but not limited to the following:
Once each year a staff member may request a written performance review from the supervisor regardless of the method of review used by the work unit as a whole. This request shall be in writing and should include pertinent documents, such as an activities report, updated position description, or other documents to be considered by the supervisor when conducting the review. The supervisor shall prepare a written review and provide a copy of the review to the staff member and place a copy in the employee’s personnel file. Upon request of the staff member or supervisor, a meeting shall be scheduled to discuss the review. The staff member may prepare a written response to the review and place it in the personnel file.
New staff members shall be notified of the unit’s procedures for performance review at the time of appointment.
Salary considerations are not the principal purpose of performance review, but the results of performance reviews shall be considered when determining the academic staff member’s annual merit increment.
UW-701 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 1 – Coverage and Definitions
UW-702 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 2 – Academic Staff Appointments
UW-705 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 5 – Layoff for Reasons of Budget or Program
UW-706 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 6 – Discipline and Dismissal
UW-708 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 8 – Complaints Against Academic Staff Members
UW-709 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 9 – Academic Staff Appeals Committee
UW-711 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 11 – The Personnel File
UW-713 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 13 – University Academic Staff Assembly
UW-714 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 14 – Committees of the University
UW-715 Academic Staff Policies and Procedures: Chapter 15 – Academic Freedom
07-02-2018