How true is that people leaders have to rate employees?
A colleague mentioned and it determines who gets selected for promotion and maybe layoffs.
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Of course! You are continually being rated, and not just formally. You’d better know whose back you need to scratch.
Into the nine-box with you!
I think the practice you’re referring to might be the “grid” that existed for a while. One axis, “potential”, the other, “motivation”. Basically, lower left was a termination target, upper right we’re top shelf.
Go farther back and some departments went through “fat”, “meat”, or “bone” during the first rounds of layoffs.
But after that, often the decisions of whom to lay off didn’t include input from front line leadership at all. They found out the same time as those exited. The decisions were made by senior managers and up.
But yes. Rating staff is a routine part of leadership.
Well you get rated every year during annual review but yeah there is an employee matrix where you base your employees on if they are well suited for their role and have the capacity to grow into something else or if they are poorly placed in their role and are struggling. But every company essentially does this…it’s your people leaders job to evaluate you.