Why Not HR?
njjel
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Our organization is doing evaluations of managers for the first time in years. HR had no input into the format or for that matter the set up at all. The employees are being asked to fill out an evaluation form for their own manager. We have about 68 employees who will be asked to fill out these evaluation forms. In your organization, who would be the person that these filled out evaluation forms would be sent to have appointments set up for review with upper management?
Now that i have asked the question I will go further and let you know that in my organization they are going to an administrative assistant in Administration becasue they say she is "neutral".
Your thoughts please.
Now that i have asked the question I will go further and let you know that in my organization they are going to an administrative assistant in Administration becasue they say she is "neutral".
Your thoughts please.
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This would help your employees evaluate their managers more honestly.
You need to make sure there is no retribution for the comments an employee makes about their manager.
I have always seen HR departments handle this, not an admin. You should have a trained eye.
When they decline, sit back and watch it blow up in their face. Hopefully they will remember your suggestions and offer of help and they may ask you to sit at the table next time.
These type of things are very delicate and IMHO, they regularly fail because they are not set up properly and followed through. It's similar to the boss walking in and announcing that everyone is now on a team. Then they walk away and everyone is standing around wondering what to do.
Are your managers ready to receive this feedback? How do you think they will react? If you have any immature managers, it's going to be anger and denial. If they've never had it before, you are going to have some BIG issues to deal with.
It's not real clear to me what this Admin Asst is supposed to be doing. If she is simply compiling all the questionnaires' data into one summary sheet, that's probably okay. Or, if she's simply setting up review sessions for somebody to sit down with each manager and go over the results, that's probably okay. Anything beyond clerical duties should be handled by someone else, and that's what I'd tell my boss, plus warning him/her that this project has employee/manager relations trouble written all over it.
Good luck and let us know how it turns out.
I would think it might get expensive to use a 3rd party every time you need to perform this type of 360 review.
>disappointing to me that upper management didn't
>have enough confidence in me as their HR
>director to advise the managers that they value
>the input of HR! To me this reinforces my
>feelings that upper management does not support
>this position and that is quite sad.
I would agree with you about the disappointment. Has upper management felt this way about previous HR people or is it new? If has always been this way i would start to look for new employment. If it is since you have been in the position I would ask them why they feel the way they do and than make a decsion about my future.