The document discusses performance appraisals and alternatives that technology companies and professional services firms have adopted. It notes that traditional annual performance appraisals are disliked by supervisors and subordinates, can lack focus on collaboration and innovation, and hold people accountable for past rather than current performance. Some alternatives discussed include asking leaders what they would do with team members rather than evaluating individuals, and using scoring and badging systems instead of annual appraisals.
8. Technology companies such as Adobe, Juniper Systems, Dell, Microsoft, and IBM have led the way, joined by
a number of professional services firms (Deloitte, Accenture, PwC) and even General Electric, the long-time
role model for traditional appraisals.
Argument #1 (Deloitte): ¡°An investment of 1.8 million hours across the firm that didn¡¯t fit our business needs
anymore.¡±
Argument #2: It¡¯s a last-century practice and blamed them for a lack of collaboration and innovation.
Argument #3: Both supervisors and subordinates despise the appraisal process¡ªa perennial problem that
feels more urgent now that the labour market is picking up and concerns about retention have returned.
Argument #4: They hold people accountable for past behaviour at the expense of improving current
performance and grooming talent for the future.
11. In effect, we are asking our team
leaders what they would do with
each team member rather than what
they think of that individual.
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24. Group 1:
Build the competency grid / guideline of
being a successful student in your Master
programme
Group 2:
Build the competency grid / guideline of
being a successful prof in your Master
programme