Rating your coworkers on their knowledge?

[Tradd]

This just seems really weird and I wonder if anyone else has experienced it.

New manager, on the job a week, sent out a chart showing everyone in the department. We are supposed to rate all others in the dept. on their knowledge! Do they know how to do certain things, do they understand certain things, are they open to learning new things, are they a strategic thinker?

What the heck...

[redfox]

It could be part of what's called a 360 evaluation.

[fidgiegirl]

Poorly rolled out, then. I guess I have no experience with this kind of evaluation but it seems that when you roll something like that out you communicate what it's for.

[SteveinMN]

When they did that where I was working, it was to figure out who had enough skills to move to another part of IT. When I left, there were two main things going on in IT. One was an implementation of a HUGE backoffice system that still will take years to configure, test, and roll out completely. I called it Billion Dollar Baby. The other thing was Everything Else, which was dumped into a trough called "Legacy" even though that's how the company makes and keeps its money now and parts of which will persist even when BDB is fully operational.

It was made very clear to us that we would all be working on some aspect of BDB now and/or in the future and that, if we weren't on board with that, our career prospects were pretty dim. As BDB replaced existing activities, the people doing those activities either were moved to corresponding tasks in the BDB project or ... given the opportunity to spend more time at home, IYKWIM.

[ToomuchStuff]

What is a 360 evaluation?


To me, this reads as your boss wants you to do their job/performance evaluation and in part, looking for employee contacts.

[Lainey]

What is a 360 evaluation?


It is when employees give feedback on their peers. It is supposed to balance out any bias of a single supervisor's evaluation.

[lhamo]

I'm all for 360 degree evaluations (would love to have one done on me, in the context of my possible promotion -- I know the feedback would be mostly positive but it would also help to have areas for improvement pointed out from different perspectives), but it sounds like new manager is pretty incompetent.

Again, watch your back, Tradd. This guy reminds me of the guy who was hired in over my head at my previous position. Bad news....

[SteveinMN]

Just to update my post of a few days ago, I learned today that the CIO who brought in Billion Dollar Baby has been retired. Well, he says he chose to retire three weeks ago but hadn't made the announcement public. >8) Tomorrow is his last day. Apparently there was cheering at the meeting in which his departure was announced.

Heh. So much for his theory that ordinary humans can change the tires on a car moving down the highway at 70 mph.

Still not going back.

[sweetana3]

Steve, it sounds just like the company where my husband used to work. They went thru a couple of these BDBs. Finally 5000 employees were laid off with half of IT being asked to leave.

Note: in his industry any person with any common sense could predict the layoffs just not the exact day it would happen. But most seem to not have any common sense.

The only part of the company that was not involved was drug discovery (scientific area) but even they felt the heavy layoffs.