Mar 312010
 

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.