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If I’m ever running a company that does annual reviews, I’m also going to have underlings review their managers.
by criddell 4y ago
If I’m ever running a company that does annual reviews, I’m also going to have underlings review their managers.
- lupire 4y agoGoogle luck making them feel safe enough to be honest.
- neilv 4y agoFreudian slip? :) (I recall hearing of both manager reviews and pyschological safety emphasis at Google.)
- kibwen 4y agoThere's no reason that managers can't be below their reports on the hierarchy of authority.
- Kinrany 4y agoThe main reason is that someone needs to make decisions about hiring, firing and negotiating salary
- DangitBobby 4y agoSomeone also needs to make that decision about managers. Might as well be their peers who they manage.
- danaris 4y agoThis should be standard practice—not just managers, but also other people at all levels that they interact with on a regular basis. It's called a 360° review.
- benhurmarcel 4y agoMy company has this. I’ve never seen someone give a bad review to a colleague on there. They’re nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
- irrational 4y agoWe have those. They are meaningless. I don’t believe for a second they are anonymous, and most managers don’t have many direct reports. They can figure out who is talking smack pretty easily. And, there are no upsides to being seen as a complainer/troublemaker. Better to just quit and move on if you get a bad manager.
- nitwit005 4y agoUpward feedback of executives can work, as I heard an executive rant about how the upward feedback program was a conspiracy against him by his peers, before he eventually vanished. As others note, feedback that only goes up one level can't really be anonymous.