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The role of a sparkling set of teeth and a charming, disarming smile through them in improving the personality of a person is second to nothing else. There are several individuals that do not maintain good hygiene that is why some people do not have nice teeth. Unless mindful efforts are made for the upkeep of your teeth, gum and teeth disease enters to disrobe you from acquiring such a brilliant personality. This is why we need dentists regularly who would carry out timely checkups and treatments to pre-empt any disease.

Dental health and overall physical health are both blood brothers. We should not see the role of dentists in our society in smaller light since health is the biggest wealth and healthy people make the country a healthy one. Conditions to teeth can often be invitations for other diseases too. This realization has set in lately and people are progressively seeking the services of dentists to ensure difficulty-free teeth set.

Dental care and treatment go hand in hand. Depending on academic skills, modern dentists are categorized into nine mainstream branches. They are, namely, those dealing in public health studies, oral and maxillofacial pathology, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, periodontics, oral and maxillofacial radiology, pediatric dentistry and prosthodontics.

All these specifications try to deal with different elements of dentistry. There are several types of dentist and they can obtain more than one suffix to be classified as a specialist. Each of these specialties caters to specific dental problems. In addition, some more specializations like special needs dentistry, dental anesthesiology, geriatric dentistry, oral biology, forensic odontology, veterinary dentistry and aviation dentistry etc also exist. Best dentists obtain the qualification levels to treat you and me only after studying for several years in their specialties. Another fully designed stream is the cosmetic dentistry. This stream and its acceptance is growing these days because people want to look good by hiding oral flaws, discolorations etc.

You must have a good dentist to receive top quality work. Best dentists of our times have to be in step with the scientific advances etc so that they remain ever useful for individual as well as collective needs of the public.

The yearly Employee Performance Review should be a thing of the past.  Performances should be gauged by comparison the Actual and Targeted Budgets for Company Divisions, and how employees in those business units contributed or hindered the Company’s Budget.

Dr. Samuel Culbert, consultant, author and professor of management at UCLA (Reference: Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2008, The Journal Report, Human Resources Section, “Get Rid of the Performance Review” by Samuel A. Culbert), argues that the traditional Performance Review is detrimental to company performance; a prime cause of low morale; and damages inter-company communications and teamwork.  Dr. Culbert lists the negatives resulting from how traditional Performance Review is typically implemented:

Two Different Mindsets:  The boss is thinking about the company Business Plan and Strategic Plan in terms of performance advances, missed opportunities, skill limitations and team dynamics.  The subordinate is concerned with compensation and job advancement.

Performance doesn’t Determine Pay Levels:  As much as prevailing market forces do along with, employee experience and Company Budget constraints. 

Subjective Objectivity:  It can be argued that a Performance Critique is as much an expression of the evaluator’s self-interests as it is the subordinate’s strengths and weaknesses.  The newest performance review method, 360 Degree Feedback, gives anonymous feedback on an employee without any credibleness built into the evaluation method.  It is too easy for self-interests to emerge and axes to be ground with such a subjective, unexplainable performance evaluation method. 

One Size doesn’t Fit All:  Cookie cutter Employee Performance checklists often create a situation of boss pleasing behaviors verses doing a good job.  Different people with different functions and backgrounds shouldn’t be judged on the same rating scale and one size fits all system. 

Personal Development is Impeded:  Subordinates are often intimidated by a Boss’ involvement in job performance as the Performance Review Structure discourages self-honesty about an employee’s short comings and areas which need improvement.  Subordinates feel self-analysis and self honesty could very well come back to chaff them during the evaluation.

Hindrance to Effective Teamwork:  The most important team dynamic, that between boss and his or her subordinates, is undermined by the Performance Review process.  The Boss is preaching teamwork, but the Performance Review process is one-sided, as the boss sees him or herself as the evaluator and doesn’t engage his team of associates.  Dr. Culbert, calls it like it seems to the subordinate:  “… a ubiquitous need for subordinates to spin all facts and viewpoints in directions they believe the boss will find pleasing.  It defeats any chance that the boss will hear what subordinates actually think.”

Immorality of Justifying Corporate Improvement:  At first I thought, as a Business Consultant and Business Coach, this is an awfully “strong” argument by Dr. Culbert, but after reading the first sentence in this section, I think he makes a valid point:  “I believe it’s immoral to maintain the façade that annual pay and performance reviews lead to corporate improvement, when it’s chiseled they lead to more bogus activities than valid ones.”  Performance Reviews tend to dispirit the employee and create mistrust and cynicism.  The amount of inefficiency created by “cover your butt” mentalities is probably much more meaning(a) than managers know. 

I will have more on the alternative, the Performance Preview, in my next article…

About The Author

Frank Goley is a business consultant, business turnaround consultant, business plan expert, business coach, small business consultant, business planner, marketing consultant, online marketing seo consultant, and business plan consultant for ABC Business Consulting. Frank is considered an expert in writing, developing and implementing business plans, business turnaround plans, funding business plans, marketing plans, strategic plans and web marketing plans. Frank offers comprehensive business consulting, business coaching, business turnaround consulting, along with web seo, web development and web marketing consulting, to small and medium size companies. Frank is the author of a business plan book, The Comprehensive Business Plan Workbook – A Step by Step Guide to Effective Business Planning, and he has over 50 published articles and e-books on business success strategies. He also writes the Business Success Strategies Blog.