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Firm Wide 360 Degree Performance Evaluation Process at Morgan Stanley

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THE FIRM WIDE 360 PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONPROCESS AT MORGAN STANLEY


Process

  • All of the professional employees identified those people within the firm with whom they regularly interacted.
  • Evaluation Request Form (ERF) is the list of above identified prospective evaluators and is reviewed by the evaluatee’s manager or supervisor.
  • ERF was then submitted to the Office of Development.
  • Processing of evaluation forms into a Year-End Data Packet for each evaluatee.
  • Each professional also completed their own self-evaluation.

Disadvantages

  • It took a great deal of time and effort to write clear and consistent summaries.
  • Numerical ratings were used as if they were somehow ‘real’ and precise.
  • Summary number was a crutch that allowed people to discount the qualitative information contained in the open ended summaries.
  • Existence of rampant ‘grade inflation’ with numeric scores and written comments.
  • Questioned the importance of commerciality, leadership and management.
  •  The biggest challenged included how to weigh the criteria and the input from different evaluators.
  • The evaluatee never saw the actual comments made by those who had completed evaluation forms.
  • A complete disconnect between a person’s self -perception and that of the colleagues, superiors, and subordinates.

Advantages

  • System advantages those who may not be good at promoting themselves.
  • Transparency in terms of seeing through those who are ‘too good’ at self – promotion.
  • Inclusion of numeric sales and an overall summary rating for the intention of facilitating comparisons across individuals.
  • Helps to make better decisions.
  • Perceived as helpful in conducting performance appraisals because the manager was able to draw on detailed and specific information from a broad cross-section of employee.
  • Evaluators were free to express themselves.
  • Rigorous performance criteria as one progressed the organizational hierarchy.

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