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Human Resources: Business Partners

Annual Performance Evaluations

Intro

The HR Business Partners provide tools, resources, and guidance to support effective individual and team performance management. Strong individual and team performance collectively contributes to overall organizational effectiveness and success.

Important Announcement from OHR

As part of our continued efforts to improve the employee experience and strengthen alignment with our CARES initiative, Leadership has made the decision to temporarily close the 2025-26 evaluation cycle.

Human Resources will soon redeploy annual evaluations, and additional communication will be shared with updated dates, expectations, and guidance before the new evaluation cycle begins.

If you previously completed a portion or all of the evaluation, OHR can capture that information for you to use once the revised template becomes available.

Please contact your HR Business Partner if you have any questions or require further support.

*What’s New*

For this year’s performance evaluation cycle, a new “Organization” section has been added to the evaluation process in order to assess how employees demonstrate behaviors that support and align with the organization’s core values.  The Organization section is weighted at 25% of the overall evaluation, leaving the remaining Performance section weighted at 75%. Please see the new Organization question below:

“To what extent does the employee exemplify UAMS CARES values —Compassion, Attention, Respect, Empathy, and Service — in their interactions with patients, families, students, and colleagues?”

Upcoming Policy Updates

  • If an employee fails to complete the Acknowledgment step of the evaluation, OHR will manually advance the Acknowledgement step after 15 business days in order to successfully complete the business process in Workday.
  • Added details to outline the process and expectations for the Initial 90-day Performance Evaluations (required) and the Extended 180-day Evaluations (optional), which is also on the HRBP webpage.