posted by Success on Jul 21

Recession has done at least one good thing for organizations. Shifting the FOCUS from Gut-feelings to qualitative and quantitative analysis of business performance and decisions.

“I think Steve is a great guy.” doesn’t work anymore. It has to be “Look at John’s sales performance report. It says he is doing great job.”

The next thing that comes into picture is Employee Performance Appraisals. More than ever organizations are looking to set SMART goals and conduct performance appraisals honestly. But does HONESTY itself gives accurate results?

Consider the case of three managers in the same department of an organization in Year 2007. The performance of the teams of these managers was at par with marginal differences.

Manager A: Ram is one of the youngest managers and hails from Generation Y. He is very optimistic and looks for positive side of the employees. He believes in motivating by carrots.
Manager B: Sonia is in the middle of her career. She has high career prospects in the company and looking for promotion in 1-2 years. She likes to play safe.
Manager C: Johnson is an ex-government employee. For him discipline and loyalty come foremost. He cannot tolerate any deviation from policies and authorities. He believes in the stick.

Here are the scores given by each of them to their team members on the scale 1- 10:

Click here to view the Score Tables.

Inferences that can be drawn from the above tables are:

• Most of the top performers are from Ram’s Team.
• Most of the bottom performers are from Johnson’s Team.
• The best of Sonia and Johnson are nowhere near Ram’s team members.
• Ram has no bottom performer.

The questions that arise? Click here to read further on my blog Talent Junction:

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