Performance Appraisal Of An Employee In Mid Of The Year !

Hi All
Would like to have your view on this. we have Annual Appraisal Cycle in our Organization such as Jan to Dec or July to June depends on employee Date of Joining. There is one candidate who joined us on October. Now he is asking for his appraisal. As per his joining he will be completing his 1yr with company on October 2006.
What should I do in this regard? Should I recommend him appraisal or wait till Jan?
Waiting for responses ASAP.
Regards
Sujata

Hi,
Go by your HR Policy Manual. If there is no such mention in Policy then look for how you have handled such cases in past?
In my opinion you go by the organisation cycle. In this case the employee should be appraised after Dec. The employee should be eveluated for the whole period since he/she has joined. Any performance reward calculation should consider 1.2 year.
Regards
Sunil

Hi,
Go Ahead, get his appraisal done. There is no harm in being a little flexible when he has completed 1 year. The employee will feel happy and will respect you and the organisation.
Most of the times we delay it to fall in line with the cycle and what we reap is discontent.
Why do you want to make him look out for a better pay ....How will you react if he comes up with an offer .... You will be forced to negotiate and am sure if he is a valuable employee....money becomes irrelevant and you will do everything possible to keep him on board.
Wot do you say ?
Regards,
Rekha

Hi
Thanks for your replies.
Hi Rekhaa
Thanks a ton for your suggestion. I think you suggestion is good. If we won't appraise him he will definitely look for another option as he is performing well and I don't think he will wait.
I go by your suggestion.
Thanks once again to you & career-first
Regards
Sujata

Sujata,
Just to add Gravy to Rekha's comment- I will suggest to make a amendment in HR policy to make an annual appraisal after one year of employee's joining. (Give a good rise in this first appraisal!! )
Remember that one of the objective of HR policy is - retention- amend it to suit changing requirement of market.
What's ur opinion?
Avinash

Hi Avinash
Not a bad idea but for that we will have to do appraisal everymonth. That would be somewhat complicated than this. Isn't it?. Let me know your view on this.
Regards
Sujata

Sujata,
To search , train new a employee is more complicated than this.
Else, you can keep 2 appraisal cycles in such a way that employee is appraised in either of appraisal cycle .This time can vary from min 6 months to maximum of 12 months.
ex-1 Cycle in Jul - employees joined from jul to Jan
2 Cycle in Jan employees joined from jan to Jul
Most big organiastions follow this practice.
Thanx
Aviansh

Hi Avinash
You are right to search & train a new employee is more complicated than this.
. In our organisation it is Jan to Dec or July to June. I had mentioned it in my post also :D. The employeed had joined in the month of October. So I was asking whether to give him appraisal this time or wait till Jan.
Regards
Sujata

Sujata,
As I mentioned earlier- he falls in Jul 2 Jan cycle- he should have covered in Jul it self , How ever now you should do it in this cycle... Waiting period should be from 6months to 12 months only... not morethan 12 months.
:arrow: Do it now & avoide enw search!!
Avinash

COMPANY RULES ARE GUIDELINES ONLY.
IN YOUR CASE,
-WHEN AN EMPLOYEE COMPLETES 12 MONTHS IN CONTINUOUS
SERVICE, THE EMPLOYEE MUST HAVE HIS/HER
PERF. APPRAISAL DONE .
THIS IS IN THE INTEREST OF
-THE EMPLOYEE , WHO WISH TO KNOW WHERE HE/SHE STAND
-AS AN EMPLOYER, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT IS THE ACHIEVEMENT
OF THIS EMPLOYEE.
SO LOGICALLY / ETHICALLY AND FROM AN HR PERSPECTIVE,
PERF . APPRA. MUST BE DONE NOW.
REGARDS
LEO LINGHAM