Tweet

360 Degree Appraisals

Written by: David Acheson

Article Overview: An overview on the 360 Degree Appraisals

360 Degree Appraisals

A traditional appraisal is held every 6 months or yearly by the management who appraised the staff on performance and established areas of training needs and or development. Quite often the staff would appraise themselves first and then discuss how they saw their performance against how their manager saw it. Usually we are more critical of ourselves than others and so found the self appraisals to be marked lower than that of the management. To demonstrate a 360 degree appraisal i.e. if you have a Sales Structure such as 18 sales people, 3 Sales Managers, 1 x Sales Director and a Managing Director. The sales managers will appraise their sales staff and their sales staff will appraise them. The best way to do this is to have a standard form with standard question that everyone answers, then the feedback from the sales managers to the sales staff is done by the sales manager but the feedback from the sales staff to the manager is done by an independent employee, maybe from the HR department, and it is better to give the upward feedback anonymously as you will find staff will be more honest if they feel it is being give anonymously. For the Sales Staff appraisals many companies are asking assistance from the sales staffs customers to do the upward appraisal, the results of which can be very valuable. Then in the scenario above the Sales Director Appraises his sales managers but also then has to appraise the MD. As this is a one to one relationship it obviously cannot be anonymous. This can cause issues if the MD does not take constructive criticism or the Sales Director is playing company politics and so does not do an honest appraisal. In this case you may be better doing a traditional appraisal. It is seen by the staff to be very negative if the board or directors want a 360 degree appraisal but do not want to be appraised themselves.

Related Articles
  Performance Appraisals
  Designing A Performance Management System
  Are Organizations Utilizing Employee Performance Appraisal Systems optimally?
  Performance Appraisals: Critical Conversations
  Human Capital Talent Management Requires to Tell It Like It Is

Article Tags: 360 degree appraisal, company politics, constructive criticism, honest appraisal, hr department, independent employee, managing director, relationship, sales director, sales managers, sales staff, self appraisals, staff appraisals, staffs, traditional appraisal, upward feedback



Related Forum Posts
Greetings From Destiny's Door - Hi Everyone, Thanks for the invitation to introduce myself. I'm looking forward to being part of the discussions here. I called my business "Destiny’s Door Coaching" because I believe you already have everything it takes to create the business of your dreams. The door to your destiny stands always open. The choice is up to you. I work with Business Women and Entrepreneurs who want to create a life and business that matches their true potential, while still allowing them time to do the things they love most. I support them as they discover how to work smarter and not harder. I coach because I am passionate about seeing women achieve amazing things when they fully accept their own greatness. Business really gives women a great opportunity to express their passions and purpose in a way that also brings financial rewards. I believe you are highly important as the foundation of your business. As you grow and unleash your true potential, you enable your business to do the same. In fact, I'm doing that personally through my own business. I coach women and write articles inviting women to step into greater personal success. As a Certified Life Coach with a Degree in ministry, this is a perfect fit for me. On a personal level, I believe in living fully alive and making the most of every moment. I even have my own Coach! Of course, life is always a work in progress, but I keep moving forward. I do this happily in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of B.C. with my husband and two feline companions. Anyhow, I look forward to meeting you through the forum where we can challenge and inspire each other to really grow towards our full potential. Let’s really commit to creating the businesses of our dreams. I’ll meet you at Destiny’s Door! Warmly, Tami
Re: Fashion - Nana, At you choice you may choose to research the fashion industry a bit more. There is obviously a Business side to it as well as a creative side to it. Find out all the types of roles that exist in the industry. Some that come to mind merchandiser, Window dresser, floor plan organizer (someone needs to determine the layout of a retail store to best sell the goods), fashion consultant (Yorkdale mall has fashion consultants that take you around and tell you what looks great on you - you also get a cut from the sales). This is what I've observed from the business side, you may know more. All these roles I've written about will help you grow as a business person and make the contacts in the industry...possible stepping stones. But further more you'll also notice that you need to develop some business acumen possibly tailored to the fashion industry. When I was at Ryerson I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur someday too. I knew I needed some basic business courses to get a foundation to build from. I was in a Tech/Business Major (I'm sure Fashion has something similar - Fashion/Business Major) and then started to create my own minor. Here are some of the courses I took: Marketing, Law, Entrepreneurial, Management, consulting.. and a few more . Also, I'm sure that within the Fashion Major there are also courses you have to take where you can use your creative side and create designs. Typically within a Major there are focuses you can choose - ask the program coordinator. Your next step is to do some research. 1. Visit Commercial retail outlets like H&M, Banana Republic, or jacob. Tell the Manager your doing some research for University and would like to know what types of Corporate roles exist aside from the roles on the retail floor (like sales associates). If she asks you to elaborate then you can use some of the roles I mentioned above. 2. With this information in hand you can visit the Ryerson Fashion department and inquire with the Program Coordinator on what focus within the Fashion Degree would help you the most. In my program there were 5 different focuses within the Tech/Business program. Just a quick aside. A good friend of mine too has a dream of fashion. he want to create a niche fashion line tailored to skinny men (I can't mention the style). He's in Business school but not in the Fashion program... He's in International Business but all his Minor courses are tailored to running a successful business ... similar to the ones I mentioned above for myself. I have no doubt in my mind he'll make it 'cos his vision is that strong.


Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.

Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.

Tweet

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

What Aweber Can Do For Your Online Business

How to Ask for a Flexible Work Arrangement

Live To Work Or Work To Live?

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.