I recalled it was a weird dinner last Friday …
One guy from US came to visit Shanghai so we had dinner together, during the dinner I found 4 people there are: myself, my ex-boss who’s working for Microsoft now, my ex-boss’ boss (the visitor, and will move to Microsoft in September), and my ex-boss’ boss’ boss (that’s my boss now).
Glad to see I got upraded – my current boss was my boss’ boss in my last project, and he was my boss’ boss’ boss in the my project prior to that. ๐
New policy is coming out regarding the performance management, that is, manager will review performance (and maybe setup goal as well) with employees in a quarterly basis. It is an important enhancement, definitely, which can help people understand how he/she was doing and what’s the expectation from management, and this is the enhancement that we tried couple of times in the past ~10 years …
So every time people started complaining about goals are unclear, or feedback is not timely, the company triggered this kind of “enhancement” but soon people (may be another group of people) started complaining that there are too many paperwork or B.S. meeting and that’s annoying, then, you know it, right? Company would move back to annually review.
Let’s see how long it can last this time. I would to say this is a bad idea since it just adds more paperwork to good managers who keep good communication with their team members, and it doesn’t help those managers who don’t share their idea with their teams. Management, especially people management is not something that can be “formalized”, i.e. make it formal policy/process, it is more about basic human interact.
Anyway, that’s my understanding, and I could be wrong.
It was the first 1-on-1 yesterday in the past 2 and half months.
I took vacation in mid Dec, so missed 1st one, then it became xmas so missed 2nd one, then my boss went to vacation so missed the 3rd one, then it was public holiday so 4th one’s gone, then I took another vacation so 5th one, then my boss’ vacation so missed 6th.
Unlucky enough, right?