About Your 360 Degree AppraisalPerformance Appraisal Help For Your Career A 360 degree appraisal is something that more organizations are carrying out because they believe that the review and feedback received from a number of different perspectives is more valuable than a single viewpoint which may be entirely subjective. Generally, the aims of any performance appraisal are to:
Introduction: A 360 degree appraisal is the report generated by compiling the perspectives of a number of selected respondents (or raters). Sometimes also called 180 or 540 degree - with the difference being the number of respondent 'groups'. Typically 360 degree appraisal would involve the person themselves, their manager, selected peers and selected people that the person manages - 4 dimensions. A 180 degree could be just the person and their manager - or the person and their peers - or the person and the people they manage - 2 dimensions. 540 degree is where additional groups are asked to contribute - for example 'customers' and other 'stakeholders' - 5 or more dimensions. Each of the respondents is asked to complete a 360 degree appraisal questionnaire that allows them to score and comment on the person. The questionnaire is normally based on behaviours that are expected to create high performance in the role. Therefore the principle steps in the sequence are:
The key difference to a more traditional appraisal is that more people are involved.
The potential 'Pit-falls' of the process are:
How many people should be involved ? The power of the process is realized when you ask people who have 'seen' the person operate at work. Typically 8 to 10 people are asked to be involved. The person themselves (to allow a direct comparison between 'self' scores and others). People who have a similar role, (known as 'peers') and preferably at least two to protect their confidentiality. People directly managed by the person ('direct reports'). 'Stakeholders' - people who have a 'stake' in the role of the person. 'Customers' - people to whom the persons work supplies a product or process. How does the 360 degree appraisal and feedback process work... a live example. The reactive360 system allows you to complete all of these steps - with some additional features that enable you to customise the process and brand the 'look and feel' to that of your company or a client you are working with. The system contains a series of modules to simplify the process. · Template: Create a template to contain: -Custom branding (of the on-line questionnaire and the report). -Your own questionnaire design with a selected scoring scale. -A Custom e-mail invitation. -Your choice of report layout (including adding custom text pages). -Preview the 'look and feel' of the template. · Appraisal: Select respondents and send the questionnaires. -Add additional people. -Select their relationship to the appraisee. · Feedback: Monitor the response rate -Send e-mail reminders -Generate reports · Reports: View and download the completed report -Create folders to store and manage compiled reports. · Advanced: Set up people as colleagues. -Allow them to complete their own 360 degree appraisal process using your 'Template' -Allocate credits to allow them to generate their report. -Allocate multiple credits and assign multiple templates to allow local people to manage the process. Key Parts of the Process: Templates: A 'template' needs to be created before you create any appraisals. It is the template design that enables you to 'customise' the 'look and feel' of the whole process to mirror your company (or your clients company). When you have designed your template you can assign appraisals to it. In this way all the appraisals assigned will have the same 'look and feel' and use the When designing a template you can; Give the template a name, Choose the colours that will appear on the report and the on-line questionnaire, Edit the text of the e-mail that is sent to the people involved in the process, Select or design a questionnaire, choose questions, add your own and change the scoring scale and Design the report layout where you can add your own pages, move the pages around and delete pages that are not appropriate. Appraisals: An appraisal is the actual set of questionnaires that are sent to people to complete on the person being appraised (the appraisee). The appraisal process will involve the distribution of the questionnaire to a group of people. It is typically sent to themselves (self) Their manager (manager),their peers (peers) and the people that the appraisee manages (direct reports). Sometimes other people are involved, stakeholders and internal or external customers. It is normal to send questionnaires to 1 self - 1 manager 2 peers - 2 direct reports and if other groups are used 2 to each other groups. The reason for this is that it 'protects' confidentiality of the peers, direct reports as there is no-way of knowing who said what. The 360 degree appraisal process will have a deadline and therefore it is possible to select a 'return date' for the questionnaires. It is probable that some people will forget to complete the questionnaire so they will need to be 'chased' and sent a reminder. Occasionally people will want to re-open a questionnaire to edit some of the information after they have saved it. Sometimes people will want to be added to the process part way through. When adding people to the appraisal it is possible that you incorrectly add an e-mail address - so there needs to be a way to 'fix' a failed e-mail. Feedback: Feedback is a completed (or partially completed) questionnaire that will be included in the report. After the dead-line has passed for feedback questionnaires to be completed you can make a decision as to when you generate the report. Generating the report is the process where all the feedback for the appraisee is analysed and compiled into a single document (the report) Reports: A completed report once generated is the actual document that will be handed to (or discussed with) the appraisee. The reports when generated appear in the 'Reports' module of the process and from there they can be purchased and down-loaded. Once you have followed the whole process you will be in posession of a 360 degree feedback report on yourself indicating your shortfalls and your strengths allowing you to improve your personal development. Trevor Smith is a leadership consultant with over 20 years in the HR industry, working for various national blue chip companies he set up his own consulting group in the late 80's and now provides leadership development courses for businesses globally. Specialising in 360 degree feedback Appraisals. For more information on Trevor's 360 degree appraisal work please visit http://www.reactive360.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Trevor_Smithhttp://EzineArticles.com/?What-Is-A-360-Degree-Appraisal?&id=1111511 In the context of performance evaluation, or 360 degree appraisal / performance appraisal, positive feedback should be delivered to reinforce good performance, whereas negative feedback should be intended to correct or improve poor performance. 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