Is achieves expectations the new successful? Joined this team three months ago and only worked with this manager for two months, received achieves expectations but comments seemed negative unsure why..
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Bo-m! Landed the hard truth and incompetence at Nike. @BQ you nailed it
It's a long story but basically starting this last FY Nike instituted a new ratings compression mandate that forced/induced managers to rate everyone lower across the board. The thin wafer of a business rationale was that this was a response to employees saying in the engagement surveys that performance was not being properly measured and subsequently recognized and rewarded.
Naturally HR and executive leadership didn't understand the root cause of the employee feedback was because we all observed a lot of personal favoritism and nepotism on the part of leaders and managers. Instead of addressing the underlying toxicity, Nike did the now signature Uno reverse card of saying "You asked for this" and just made it harder for performers to be recognized while still allowing total political favoritism to win. This also has the added "bonus" of compressing the amount of money paid out to employees over time since everyone gets a lower rating.
I expect the next genius move will be a new mandate that managers have to assume every year at least 10% of their team should be managed out of the company to increase turnover and attrition.
Sadly this is the de facto standard operating procedure in corporate so Nike is just catching up with the rest of the big company approach towards "yucky humans" (cynical sarcasm).
Nike is a trash culture. That is why