I had an interesting conversation with someone in HR where a close friend works.
They had a pretty typical rating system. There were numbers associated with it which translated basically to:
"Terrible" - "Below Average" - "Average" - "Above Average" - "Excellent"
And you got raises and bonuses based off of those ratings.
They modified their system a couple years ago to one that REQUIRED that at lease one person in the group got the terrible rating. Even if no one did a terrible job, you had to give it to someone.
I can only guess that the philosophy was that it would motivate people to work harder and not be that one person.
They've since dumped the system. I had the opportunity to ask why, and the HR person told me, "Well, what ended up happening is that people stopped cooperating and working together. Instead of trying to help each other succeed, they didn't want to do anything that would help someone else get their job done because they needed to make sure that someone else in the group was the bad apple."
I'm also curious how this gels with the millennial work force.
On an interesting note, the pendulum swung the other way and now they don't give out ratings at all.
Any thoughts on this?
-----------------------------Baron Von Speedypants
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http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...runtraining;#1612485
They had a pretty typical rating system. There were numbers associated with it which translated basically to:
"Terrible" - "Below Average" - "Average" - "Above Average" - "Excellent"
And you got raises and bonuses based off of those ratings.
They modified their system a couple years ago to one that REQUIRED that at lease one person in the group got the terrible rating. Even if no one did a terrible job, you had to give it to someone.
I can only guess that the philosophy was that it would motivate people to work harder and not be that one person.
They've since dumped the system. I had the opportunity to ask why, and the HR person told me, "Well, what ended up happening is that people stopped cooperating and working together. Instead of trying to help each other succeed, they didn't want to do anything that would help someone else get their job done because they needed to make sure that someone else in the group was the bad apple."
I'm also curious how this gels with the millennial work force.
On an interesting note, the pendulum swung the other way and now they don't give out ratings at all.
Any thoughts on this?
-----------------------------Baron Von Speedypants
-----------------------------RunTraining articles here:
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...runtraining;#1612485