As an HR Professional with three years of experience I know the following:
- Real performance management occurs throughout the year, in fact daily between a manager and employee - the appraisal should just be a re-cap of and final tally of how one did against their objectives.
- Frank eliminating ratings will actually erode the concept of "meritocracy" and result in little to no tie between performance and pay differentiation.
- The best performers will be pi---d to learn that their "performance rating" has been eliminated --- with no notice arbitrarily at the end of the year unilaterally by Frank who changed the rules at the end of the game.
- The point is, Frank stick with trying to improve sales, service and the company financials.
- And finally, your obsession and track record on people topics have been terrible - RTO, eliminating loyal and committed associates who were hired remotely, your own succession by losing Himanshu and Suzan are all examples that you don't know what you are doing.