jjibad

For the last 5 years or so we switched to merit based evaluations. I have mixed feelings on the system and was wondering what others thought. I am lucky to get the maximum raise every year but I have been at my job over 14 years and have an almost psychotic work ethic. I feel for the new people though because they have yet to establish themselves and the evaluations are so subjective. First problem I see is that there are specific catagories in which you are evaluated. While it stands to reason that you would have to measure up to some criteria many things that people do at work do not fall under these specific catagories. Multi tasking has brought our jobs into uncatagorized tasks that can only by judged by the ability to perform a quantity of tasks as apposed to quality in a specific one. We are not only expected to do several jobs but we are supposed to know others jobs so we can perform those too when people are on vacation. I think I lost my original reason for bringing this up but if you have other types of evaluations other than merit post it here so we can see how others are evaluated.

locoslomo

IMHO - the key to evaluations is to have agreed-upon, quantifiable metrics against which you will be measured...could be productivity, financial or other measurement, but something that limits the subjectiveness. I also helps to have evaluations more often than just once or twice a year...