How "ranking" of employees against one another helps, while making performance review.
We have a problem in ranking of employees. Our line management is not favourably inclined to do the "ranking" while top management insists for it.
We have following performance review process:
1) Setting performance goals, performance factors(competencies) and development objectives, at the beginning of financial year and reviewing employee performance quarterly;
2) At the time of annual review, all employees are appraised on a scale of 1-5 and, accordingly, rating is done;
However, we now want the line managers to rank the employees against one another and recommend the rank order list .
Line managers advocate that employees performance shall be appraised based on performance objectives set at the beginning of the year which are mutually agreed and each employee shall independently rated. However, ranking against one another is not based on an objective criteria as we benchmark a "best employee" and draw ranking. There are multiple reasons for an employee being "best" and the such multiple reasons cannot be same for all employees.
All my line management team is strongly against Ranking.
Please give your comments
DN Rao
We have a problem in ranking of employees. Our line management is not favourably inclined to do the "ranking" while top management insists for it.
We have following performance review process:
1) Setting performance goals, performance factors(competencies) and development objectives, at the beginning of financial year and reviewing employee performance quarterly;
2) At the time of annual review, all employees are appraised on a scale of 1-5 and, accordingly, rating is done;
However, we now want the line managers to rank the employees against one another and recommend the rank order list .
Line managers advocate that employees performance shall be appraised based on performance objectives set at the beginning of the year which are mutually agreed and each employee shall independently rated. However, ranking against one another is not based on an objective criteria as we benchmark a "best employee" and draw ranking. There are multiple reasons for an employee being "best" and the such multiple reasons cannot be same for all employees.
All my line management team is strongly against Ranking.
Please give your comments
DN Rao