Dear All,
Yes it is true that defining KRAs, Goals to each employee and monitoring against them is the best method, Most of the organizations are following performanace appraisal based on these KRAs / Goals only.
I have few queries on this. can you pl. put your thought and clarify.
1) First of all defining "PROPER" KRAs/Goals is an important task, it may also be possible that a goal which is almost achieved may be put as targetted goal to show it as better performace.
How can we overcome this? is there any better way to measure /evaluate the goal techinically?
2) Some times I feel, defining goals and performance apprisal strictly based on that may restrict / reserve the area of working (?), i,e.. putting boundries to their thought, creativity (?). For eg. a person has very good idea on the other area of his department but which is not defined in his goal.. there is a chance to feel that why should I spend time on that which can't be seen / shown as my achievement. Another common tendency is, when there is performance apprisal on record basis, it is tried to put even the smallest work they did and try to measure that also.
How to overcome this? and provide freedom to think and act so that the creativity improves?
3) I have observed that during performance apprisal time most of the people spend their time to analyse the data in order to measure their improvement against the goal? Generally effort is put to show the best with nice presentations, write ups etc.. is it technically possible to ensure that the self apprisal is not over shown / Under shown.
Regards
S.S.Acharya