Is common sense part of a performance appraisal or does that hurt people's feelings too?

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performance appraisal ? Huh!!!

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On our kids or our employees?

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I've had to do them (in a previous life), but I'm not sure what you are asking.

I used to do them and hated them. I tried giving honest feedback in a tactful way, but frequently people have an elevated opinion of themselves.

I used to manage about 20 hourly employees in a receiving, inspection and stockroom department of computer manufacturing company. Had a woman who did an OK job inspecting electronic parts. She was not exceptionally bright or motivated, but she did her job adequately.

She had a best friend in the department and every time she needed to leave the area to go get something or see an engineer for a question, she would grab her friend and off they'd go.

In her annual review, I complimented her on the things she did well. I offered the constructive criticism that she should venture alone on her errands because there was no logical reason her friend needed to accompany her. She became really agitated in the review and broke down in tears.

As soon as we were finished, she immediately found her friend and they made a B-line to my boss's office to complain about the appraisal I had just given her.

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All pretty cut-n-dried for me. We have a lengthy, wordy form and the subordinate and supervisor go through each item. We also have a mid-year review that allows mods due to unforeseen circumstances. It works rather well. But I really haven't had a prob with anybody.

When I ran a contract survey crew it was "different." I'd fire a person every pay period or so. We hired people right off the welfare and unemployment roles at the local state office. They'd work pretty well for about a pay period or so and then start drinking or smoking or shooting up their wages and forget to come in or come in all f$cked-up. Mostly they'd just grin at me. Sometimes they'd get mad a cuss me. Back then I worked outside all day, every day and I worked alongside the brush cutters 2-3 days a week and I was studying martial arts and doing a lot of intense sparring. Let'em cuss. But I never had one actually take a swing at me. It was all bluster and bull*****.

I work in a field where people get (meaningless) Ph.D's in how to administer us. It means there is a fair amount of BS that comes around from the latest Ph.D dissertations. The best managers are the ones who do their best to avoid that crap and ask serious questions about whether people are doing their jobs or not. In other words, as far as I'm concerned, common sense is the basis of good employee evaluations.
Our system is roughly like Bot's. Yearly objectives, halfway revisions if necessary and year end evaluations. The whole system is actually a colossal waste of time and money. Some people have been evaluated for 20 yrs and have been getting the same evaluations for 20 yrs. What's the point?

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I forgot to mention, "Waste of time." Yup. It's that.

totally. every year my boss and I have a contest to see how fast I can look at the review and sign it. I first ask if I am getting a raise, when she says yes I sign away- i have it down to 3 seconds...

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We use an upstream/downstream - The employee answers questions and submits to supervisor then downstream - supervisors sets goals. They are very good and not subjective as the employee pretty much sets the pace.

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