I hate self-reviews. That just seems wrong. If they're going to give me the responsibility of reviewing myself, then they should give me the power to give myself raises. I'd be really well off now if they did!
We have annual reviews and 6 month reviews to see how we are progressing on our annual goals.
When someone works with their manager day in, day out, performance evaluations are nothing more than putting a notch in HR's gun stock. I have never liked performance reviews and for the most part I have always scored high.
I just think they are a waste of time.
Oh and self reviews; I learned a long time ago that most people judge themselves more critically than their managers, so I always give myself a great review. Managers will tend to follow your evaluation rather than have to be in a confrontational situation to try and prove a point.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
I hate it when they employees to do peer evaluations... first they are not in management so they shouldn’t be reviewing anybody and second it’s never with a professional mentality it’s always personal. God forbid you get one from somebody you don’t get along with.
i just hate evaluations altogether, just let me do my job to the best of my ability and let my performance speak for itself. If I need some correcting so be it, just tell me.
i could never be in management or HR.
I am so glad that I don't have to engage in such corporate froo-frah.
At my first firm (the first one I count) I was told that I would be assigned a partner mentor and would have evaluations every 6 months. from 1999 to the end of 2006 (when I became a partner), I had 2 evaluations, one was formal and the other was when I passed the firm pres, in the hall, he did the finger-gun and said: "keep doing what you're doing."
Still waiting for my partner mentor to be assigned...
True story... I once had a performance evaluation where I was asked to name my goals and I responded; "If I was good with goals, I wouldn't be working here."
I don't work there anymore.
I've started to lighten up a little on evaluations of myself. When asked if I follow 5S principles, I answered "It's part of my DNA."
When asked about being to work on time, I replied, "On time is too late."
My boss laughed and agreed.