Its Appraisal Time!!!!

Its that time of the year where colleagues visit cafeteria more often. Its that time of the year for gossips, comparing and taking a tough decision of even quitting.

For those who dont know about it ,let me introduce it in a briefly.

Once a person joins an organisation, He/ she is responsible directly or indirectly forthe business and revenue of the organisation every year. At the end of the year, the organisation does share its profit based on one's contribution which is reflected as hike.People's contribution vary in different measures at different times.But who is to decide if one's contribution is significant or not? its all about doing one's job in the

 best possible way.

For engineers, its about innovating process, algorithms and technical concepts which contributes to the organisation.As an engineer , one is expected to be fundamentally sound in what one does and he executes the assigned job as expected.For leaders and management, its about providing direction to engineers. Its about giving guidance and expertise so that the goal of the organisation is met.A performance appraisal should be the opportunity for a leader in an organisation to set the development opportunities for his team .It should be an invigorating, refreshing occasion.But most of times it becomes a critizingsession and employess take extreme decisions.

Performance appraisal systems which are conducted just for routine sake , where the employee concerns arent given weightage, he/she is not provided with any direction are a failure and should be stopped for the good of the organisation.It should

 create an atmosphere where it brings out the best in them by identifying defects and providing a corrective action.A leader should posses the communicative skill to get the new joinee/experienced employee to believe his logical conclusions abt his/her performance is correct.

The forced bell curve; expecting in any group that there will be some poor employees and some great employees is a common bias.A leader should always be unbiased and supportive to the team. Most of the times, employee decides to quit not because

he isnt happy with work , but he isnt happy with his boss.

On the other hand, engineers  need to take responsibility for their work and put in efforts to improve continously. Ideas should be put forth and executed to improve the current job.Because at the end of the day, its all about engineering and we are bound

 to identify problem areas and provide solutions.

A good performance system should have structure that fits the nature of the business.Whether an employee's performance is below where it needs to be or above where we expect it to be, a leader must give immediate feedback.Not only do the leaders

should be a coach he also need to be able to take criticism from subordinates and peers and deal with it.

On the whole, both engineers and people playing leadership roles should ultimately work to meet the goals of the organisation rather than finding faults with each other and

creating a negative ambience at work.

Best of Luck for Appraisals!!!!