3. PREVIEW
• Performance Appraisal System.
• What is 360 ̊ ?
• Process of 360 ̊ Appraisal.
• Advantages and Disadvantages.
• Leading Questions and Suggestions.
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4. Performance Appraisal
• Performance appraisals are essential for the effective
management and evaluation of staff.
• Appraisals help develop individuals, improve
organizational performance, and feed into business
planning.
• Formal performance appraisals are generally conducted
annually for all staff in the organization.
• Staff performance appraisals also establish individual
training needs and enable organizational training needs
analysis and planning.
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5. Performance Appraisal
• Reviews each individual's performance against objectives
and standards for the trading year, agreed at the previous
appraisal meeting.
• Essential for career and succession planning.
• Provide a formal, recorded, regular review of an
individual's performance, and a plan for future
development.
• Important for staff motivation, attitude and behaviour
development, communicating and aligning individual and
organizational aims, and fostering positive relationships
between management and staff.
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6. Various Methods Used
Performance Appraisal
*Straight Ranking Method
*Essay Appraisal Method
*Paired Comparison
Method
*Critical Incident Method
*Field Review
*Checklist Method
*Graphic Rating Scale
*Forced Distribution
*MBO.
*360 Method̊ .
*Assessment Centres.
*Behaviourally Anchored.
Rating Scale.
*Human Resource
Accounting.
Traditional Methods Modern Methods
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7. What is 360 Degree Appraisal?
360-degree Appraisal is an
assessment process used to improve
managerial effectiveness by providing
the manager with a more complete
assessment of their effectiveness, and
their performance and development
needs.
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8. What the process involves
Obtaining feedback from the manager's key
contacts. These would normally include:
o The manager him/herself
o Subordinates (employees who work for
the manager)
o Peers (fellow managers)
o Managers (senior management)
o Customers
o Suppliers
What the process involves
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10. How to Implement 360 Degree?
360 Degree
Feedback
Planning
Piloting
ImplementationFeedback
Review
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11. How is Feedback obtained?
By using a questionnaire which asks
participants to rate the individual according to
observed behaviors - usually managerial or
business-specific competencies.
This process will not suit all companies. One
should assess how well it would fit with the
current culture before launching a scheme and
a pilot scheme is worth building into the
programme
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13. QUESTIONNAIRE DETAILS
• Part A : To be filled by the appraisee before
the Interview and sent to Appraiser.
• A1 : Appraissee to fill up his understanding
of his duties and responsibilities.
• A2 :Discussion Points:-
– Has the past year been good/bad/satisfactory
or otherwise for you, and why?
– What do you consider to be your most
important achievements of the past year ?
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14. QUESTIONNAIRE DETAILS
– What do you like and dislike about working for this
organization?
– What elements of your job do you find most difficult?
– What elements of your job interest you the most, and
least?
– What do you consider to be your most important tasks in
the next year?
– What action could be taken to improve your performance
in your current position by you, and your boss?
– What kind of work or job would you like to be doing in
one/two/five years time?
– What sort of training/experience would benefit you in the
next year?
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15. QUESTIONNAIRE DETAILS
• A3 : The Appraisee has to list out the
objectives he had set out to achieve in the
past 12 months (or the period covered by
this appraisal) with the measures or
standards agreed - against each comment
on achievement or otherwise, with reasons
where appropriate. Score the performance
against each objective (1-3 = poor, 4-6 =
satisfactory, 7-9 = good, 10 = excellent)
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16. QUESTIONNAIRE DETAILS
• A4 : Appraisee has to score his own own
capability or knowledge in the following areas
in terms of your current role requirements (1-
3 = poor, 4-6 = satisfactory, 7-9 = good, 10 =
excellent).
– commercial judgement
– product/technical knowledge
– time management
– planning, budgeting and forecasting
– reporting and administrationSyed Haris 16
17. QUESTIONNAIRE DETAILS
– communication skills
– delegation skills
– IT/equipment/machinery skills
– meeting expectations, deadlines and
commitments
– creativity
– problem-solving and decision-making
– team-working and developing/helping others
– energy, determination and work-rate
– steadiness under pressure
– leadership and integritySyed Haris 17
18. QUESTIONNAIRE DETAILS
• Part B : To be filled by the Appraiser.
• B1 : Describe the purpose of Appraissee’s job.
• B2 : Reviews discussion pts in A2.
• B3 : Reviews Appraisee’s objectives as given in A3.
• B4 : Scores the Appraisee’s knowledge or capability
as given in A4.
• B5 : Discusses appraisee’s career direction .
• B6 : Comments on competencies in current role and
potential for next role or roles.
• B7 : Comments upon the T & D support requiredSyed Haris 18
19. What does 360 ̊ measure ?
• 360 degree measures behaviors and
competencies.
• 360 degree addresses skills such as listening,
planning, and goal-setting.
• 360 degree focuses on subjective areas such
as teamwork, character, and leadership
effectiveness.
• 360 degree provide feedback on how others
perceive an employee.
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21. Advantages ..
• Method of collecting information from as
many sources in an employees environment.
• Honest assessment as viewed by a variety of
constituents.
• Confidential input from many people of how
an employee fares in his job.
• Helps employees in seeing themselves as
others see them.
• It provides information which neither
employee nor his/her superior may be aware.
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22. …Advantages
• Confidentiality an important aspect.
• Employees find this method to be fair.
• Gives an indication of performance
enhancing or distracting work situation.
• Allows to improve the system creating greater
harmony and overall improvement.
• Help employees identify strenght and
address skill gaps.
• Lends to continuous learning , growing self
confidence and improved productivity.
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23. Advantages to the Supervisor
• The system is helpful to the supervisor as :
– Accurate assessment.
– Eliminate accusations of favouritism.
– Provides greater Objectivity.
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24. Why 360 degree Appraisal Programs
Fail? ….
360 performance rating system is not a validated or
corroborated technique for Performance appraisal.
With the increase in the number of raters from one to five
(commonly), it become difficult to separate, calculate and
eliminate personal biasness and differences.
It is often time consuming and difficult to analyze the
information gathered.
The results can be manipulated by the employees towards
their desired ratings with the help of the raters.
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25. ….Why 360 degree Appraisal Programs
Fail?
The 360 degree appraisal mechanism can have a adversely
effect on the motivation and the performance of the
employees.
360 degree feedback – as a process requires commitment of
top management and the HR, resources(time, financial
resources etc), planned implementation and follow up.
360 degree feedback can be adversely affected by the
customers perception of the organisation and their incomplete
knowledge about the process and the clarity of the process.
Often, the process suffers because of the lack of knowledge on
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26. Pertinent Questions ???
• Is your organization committed to continuous
learning?
• Does your organization see the value of
developing leaders in-house?
• Are you willing to make the changes
necessary to do this?
• What is the level of trust in your organization?
Will your culture support honest feedback?
• Is upper level management willing to lead the
way and volunteer for 360-degree evaluation?
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27. Training Appraisers
Train appraisers to eliminate rater error
– Error of central tendency
– Leniency or strictness error
– Recency error
– Contrast error
– Similar to me error
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28. Effective appraisal programs . . .
Comply with the law
To ensure that the performance appraisal system does
not violate principles of fair employment practices:
- Job related performance standards
- Provide employees with a written copy of the
standards before the appraisal
- Standards must be based on observable or
measurable behaviour
- Train the raters
- Provide feedback
- Implement an appeal system to settle
disagreements
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29. Conducting the Appraisal Interview
•Ask for self assessment
•Invite participation
•Express appreciation
•Minimize criticism
•Change behaviour, not the person
•Focus on solving problems
•Be supportive
•Establish goals
•Follow up day-to-day
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We have all seen cartoons depicting the owl that can turn his head 180 degrees to the left and 180 degrees to the right. But in reality, an owl can only turn his head 270 degrees — not in a full circle. Full circle or not, it's still a good range of vision.
I'm sure you're wondering what this has to do with your business. But consider this. An owl lives in a very competitive environment. If he is to be successful in his world, he must constantly be looking for opportunities and threats. He must gather information from all directions to get a complete read on his environment and what he must to do to survive. In business terms, this translates to gathering input on our performance from all points to ensure we are doing the job we want to do.
360 degree appraisal has four integral components:1. Self appraisal2. Superior’s appraisal3. Subordinate’s appraisal4. Peer appraisal.Self appraisal gives a chance to the employee to look at his/her strengths and weaknesses, his achievements, and judge his own performance. Superior’s appraisal forms the traditional part of the 360 degree performance appraisal where the employees’ responsibilities and actual performance is rated by the superior. Subordinates appraisal gives a chance to judge the employee on the parameters like communication and motivating abilities, superior’s ability to delegate the work, leadership qualities etc. Also known as internal customers, the correct feedback given by peers can help to find employees’ abilities to work in a team, co-operation and sensitivity towards others.
This technique is being effectively used across the globe for performance appraisals. Some of the organizations following it are Wipro, Infosys, and Reliance Industries etc.
If you cannot answer "yes" to these and similar questions, then your organization may not be ready for 360-degree evaluations. While this can be a powerful and positive tool when tied to strategic goals and individual development, you might consider doing more research on the subject before implementation