Saw a post here - they are claiming hittting 300%_ quota, led their team, and still got rated "Successful". They say their director was told not to give anyone Exceptional... obviously I can't verify that. But another poster says their mgmt team had to push back against rating someone "Developing".Are managers being given quotas for each rating? If you beat your goals, what does it actually take to get "Exceptiona"?
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Think of it this way, the more exceptional you are, the more they got out of you... for the same pay. It's classic corporate psychology.
Seller here: "ratings" mean nothing. Ratings don't get you promoted, they don't get you raises, they don't get you fired. The more "exceptiona" you are, the more they raise your quota. The more they raise your quota, the less money you make.
At the top and bottom of the scale, ratings are pretty divorced from actual performance. For every Exceptional that should have been awarded, there are two Developing that shouldn’t.
@OP Yeah, they like to force it into bell curves on groups too small to actually have one occur naturally. Yet another spreadsheet management technique.
There are definitely limits and quotas around what ratings can be given out.