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It promotes kiss ass mentality and the only people left are the ones who blindly follow the boss. If a company ever needs to have Performance reviews, 360 degr

by yanilkr 17y ago

It promotes kiss ass mentality and the only people left are the ones who blindly follow the boss. If a company ever needs to have Performance reviews, 360 degree reviews are good. The manager also gets to be reviewed by the subordinates anonymously and quickly every one knows where the trust is missing. This eliminates all the managers who are promoted by randomness, and really do not have any leadership skills but politically survive. Rarely Performance reviews are conducted for good intentions, they are a tool to conduct lay offs and pocket million Dollar bonuses to executives who can show this as money saved.

pierrefar 17y ago
Even 360s are terrible the higher up you get in the company. Big Big Boss (BBB) will not fire Big Boss (BB) no matter how many subordinates say BB is bad because in many cases BB is doing BBB's dirty work. In flatter corporate structures, it's very likely that BB is the founder/owner/board member and so they're not going to go no matter what the feedback is. In those situations: kiss ass or quit.
- skybrian 17y ago
  The're terrible even at the bottom. The problem with 360 reviews is that writing reviews of your co-workers is excruciating, and the more inclined you are to be critical, the worse it is. It's essentially impossible to be honest without making people you have to work with every day unhappy, so I spend most of the time trying to think up nice things to say while not being completely dishonest. (And therefore I distrust the nice things they say about me.) I can't think of anything less likely to promote honest communication.
pw0ncakes 17y ago
Problem with 360s: at least in my experience, I've never seen people "done in" by their direct boss, because the boss wants has too much of a stake in the performance of those below him to be a total jackass. It's middle management and influential co-workers (people who are technically same-level but have more influence over those with power) that you have to watch out for. Much more common than the caricatured asshole boss (a rarity in my experience) is the "too nice" (often overburdened) hands-off boss who inadvertently leaves newbies to be eaten alive by co-workers. 360s are just going to make that sort of Lord of the Flies environment more common and harsher.

by yanilkr 17y ago

pierrefar 17y ago

Even 360s are terrible the higher up you get in the company. Big Big Boss (BBB) will not fire Big Boss (BB) no matter how many subordinates say BB is bad because in many cases BB is doing BBB's dirty work. In flatter corporate structures, it's very likely that BB is the founder/owner/board member and so they're not going to go no matter what the feedback is. In those situations: kiss ass or quit.

skybrian 17y ago
The're terrible even at the bottom. The problem with 360 reviews is that writing reviews of your co-workers is excruciating, and the more inclined you are to be critical, the worse it is. It's essentially impossible to be honest without making people you have to work with every day unhappy, so I spend most of the time trying to think up nice things to say while not being completely dishonest. (And therefore I distrust the nice things they say about me.) I can't think of anything less likely to promote honest communication.

pw0ncakes 17y ago

Problem with 360s: at least in my experience, I've never seen people "done in" by their direct boss, because the boss wants has too much of a stake in the performance of those below him to be a total jackass. It's middle management and influential co-workers (people who are technically same-level but have more influence over those with power) that you have to watch out for. Much more common than the caricatured asshole boss (a rarity in my experience) is the "too nice" (often overburdened) hands-off boss who inadvertently leaves newbies to be eaten alive by co-workers. 360s are just going to make that sort of Lord of the Flies environment more common and harsher.