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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="7-501" title_number="7" title_name="Employment in the State Personnel Management System" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Employee Performance Appraisals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The performance of each employee in the skilled service, professional service, and management service, including special appointments in each classification of each  of those services, shall be evaluated in accordance with this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The appointing authority shall ensure that each of the unit’s employees who is subject to this subtitle has performance evaluations in accordance with this subtitle and procedures established by the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each supervisor of an employee subject to this subtitle shall attend mandatory training by the Department on the methods and procedures required in the performance appraisal process.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Factors in evaluating a manager’s or supervisor’s performance shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>attendance at any required performance appraisal training;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>adherence to established methods and procedures in conducting performance appraisals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the timely completion of performance appraisals for employees assigned to the manager or supervisor; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>subject to subsection (e) of this section, if required by the manager’s or supervisor’s supervisor, the results of an anonymous survey of employees assigned to the manager or supervisor in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>An anonymous survey of the employees of a manager or supervisor may be performed only if more than five employees are assigned to the manager or supervisor.</text>
  </level>
</section>
