Are Slovenian companies aware of the importance of performance review?

The research on performance review in Slovenian companies arose out of the need to determine how Slovenian companies approach evaluation process. The survey was conducted in 2018. As part of the research subject, we conducted a survey consisting of 11 open-ended and closed-ended questions regarding the evaluation of employee’s performance. Participants in the survey were HR leaders from Slovenian companies. The results provided us with information on what methods organizations use to evaluate employee’s performance and how they do it. According to AJPES data obtained from the Business Register (ePRG), there were 215,354 registered business entities in Slovenia in the last quarter of 2018, of which 72,922 were companies. The research was carried out in 65 Slovenian organizations. The sample covered 0.09% of all organizations in Slovenia. Since this was a quota, professionally ad hoc sampling, we tried to evenly sample organizations of all sizes. As a result, all groups are represented evenly which gives us information on orderliness of evaluation for all four groups. Since a larger number of employees surveyed work in large companies, we gathered data for the majority of Slovenian employees. We posed the following thesis: Slovenian companies evaluate their employees largely due to legal requirements and still do not make use of modern evaluation trends to a satisfactory extent when conducting evaluation. As expected, the research confirmed our thesis and readers may thus consider this finding as insignificant. However, this is not the case. On the contrary, rising awareness that companies lack a satisfactorily regulated evaluation process may urge the companies to take actions to ensure better evaluation process in the future.
The limitation of this research is the number of companies involved. Note that whenever we have a non-probability sampling it often results in bias samples, which can lead to drawing wrong conclusions. The practical application of this survey is that it offers Slovenian employers an insight into the current situation in terms of employee evaluation. The findings are also relevant to experts and theorists and lecturers in the field of human resources, especially in the field of employee evaluation. They can incorporate findings into their business and academic practice.
The most recent survey of this kind was conducted in 2000. For this purpose, there is a need for both staff and employers to get acquainted with the current situation.