Performace Appraisals
Appraising someone else's performance is not a fun nor easy task. In our HR Simulation Performance Appraisals we were told to appraise the other members of our team. I found this very difficult do the the fact I strive to not hurt other people's feelings. Telling someone that you think they are not a good worker isn't exactly being the kindest person in the world. I think if it would be possible to do the appraisals on an anonymous level people would get much better feedback. I know I held back on some of the things I would have liked to tell my teammates simply because I didn't want them hating me. Also, because I know that some of the things they were doing wrong I did myself. This makes me feel very hypocritical. On an anonymous basis I believe the members could get much better feedback without feeling attack by any specific individual.
Comments
Posted by: Zack Davis
Posted on: December 13, 2005 04:12 PM
I didn't like the group evaluation system either. Our group turned our evaluations into the group leader. This could have been a problematic situation if someone were to have been critical of the group leader's performance, than the group leader would have seen that and even though I know this wasn't the case in my group, the leader might get offended at the very least and it could end up in a situation where that person would retaliate by giving low scores to an individual that didn't deserve it. I also feel that overall people probably evaluated eachother fairly easily because they didn't want to be mean. This would obviously lead to a distorted view of the peoples performances.