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A performance appraisal (PA), also referred to as a performance review, performance evaluation, (career) development discussion, or employee appraisal is a method by which the job performance of an employee is documented and evaluated.

Performance appraisals are a part of career development and consist of regular reviews of employee performance within organizations.

Employee engagement is a property of the relationship between an organization and its employees.

An "engaged employee" is defined as one who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work and so takes positive action to further the organization's reputation and interests.

Talent management refers to the anticipation of required human capital for an organization and the planning to meet those needs.

The field increased in popularity after McKinsey's 1997 research and the 2001 book on The War for Talent.

Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.

The system can then be said to feed back into itself.

The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems:

Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing application software is inadequate to deal with them.

Challenges include capture, storage, analysis, data curation, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.

The term "big data" often refers simply to the use of predictive analytics, user behavior analytics, or certain other advanced data analytics methods that extract value from data, and seldom to a particular size of data set.

"There is little doubt that the quantities of data now available are indeed large, but that’s not the most relevant characteristic of this new data ecosystem.".