The Concept of the 360 Degree Performance Evaluation (Essay Sample)

The Concept of the 360 Degree Performance Evaluation
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The Concept of the 360 Degree Performance Evaluation
The 360-degree appraisal is the appraising of the performance of employees in an organization in which the managers, the co-workers as well as the subordinates all rate an employee anonymously. With the 360 degrees appraisal, the performance of the employee can be reviewed, and his or her work can be critiqued and discussed for a particular period, usually one year. The process of this evaluation is often different in that it receives feedback from the subordinates as well as from the co-workers, instead of receiving feedback from the direct supervisor. According to Blanchard & Thacker (2013), the core objective of the process is to better comprehend the way the workers function as part of the general team, and to enhance the ways in which the members of the team work together.
My thoughts on this type of evaluation are that the outcomes of the process are more reliable because the feedback is usually obtained from every area in which the employee interacts. When several departments and people offer the same response, it becomes too hard to ignore (Blanchard & Thacker, 2013). More so, the evaluation requires anonymity on the sides of the evaluators. The anonymity encourages the evaluators to provide honest and reliable feedback without having the fears of unfavorable repercussions. As such, I suppose that the 360-degree evaluation of performance can effectively work in my current place of work. The first reason it works is that it involves the provision of feedback without revealing the evaluators identity, which spurs confidence for the honest response. Secondly, the criteria for evaluation is very simple because it only requires the evaluator to fill the survey, which is both non-monotonous and non-time consuming.
 
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Blanchard, P., & Thacker, J. (2013). Effective Training: Systems, Strategies, and 
Practices (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall.