Kevin G. Chapman

Associate GC at Dow Jones & Company

Previously, he was in private practice as a management-side labor and employment attorney at Proskauer Rose and Kauff, McGuire & Margolis in New York City. Chapman has been handling employment law issues for Dow Jones since 1995. He is currently the secretary of the Employment & Labor Law Committee of ACC. Full disclosure: he has not yet convinced his own company’s HR department to depart from the traditional scored performance review form system, but he’s working on it.

My Articles

Employment and Labor

Law Department Management

Re-engineering the Annual Performance Review

This article suggests an alternate process that replaces the annual performance review form with a two-step process of regular discussions between managers and their subordinates and a separate, confidential written staff assessment memo addressed to higher management.