The article presents articles published in the previous issues of the journal that talked about employee performance. In the article titled "How to Prepare for a Performance Appraisal," by Patricia King in the February 1984 issue, the author offers practical tips to trainers about how to conduct a performance appraisal to employees. Clay Carr discusses that training is not always the answer to performance problems in his article "How to Improve Performance," in the July 1994 issue. The article "Training and Performance Appraisal: Are They Related?," by Donald L. Kirkpatrick assesses the evolution of performance appraisals.