Report On Performance Appraisal - A Case Study Of ...
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................31 Why did Adobe abandon traditional performance review........................................................32 What does stack ranking refers to and identify its positive and negative points for employeesand firm........................................................................................................................................43 New approach adopted by Adobe and its impact on performance reviews for employees andmanagers......................................................................................................................................64 Particular industries or firms where new performance review approach may not work..........75 Reconciliation of tensions and needs to build strong teams in order to improve productivityand performance on individual employees..................................................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONHuman resource department is one of the main functional branches of the organization. Inthis report, a case study of performance appraisal that is related to Adobe organization is takeninto consideration. In present study, detailed analysis of past performance appraisal process isdone. Apart from this, new changes that are made by Adobe in its employee evaluation processare also discussed in detail. At end of the report, conclusion section is prepared in which briefoverview of case study is given. 1 Why did Adobe abandon traditional performance reviewAdobe is the one of the largest software company that is known for innovation andtechnology. The case study that is reviewed in this report is related to performance appraisalsystem. It was important to abandon traditional performance review in the business. This isbecause there were number of loopholes in it. Apart from this, mentioned firm decided to changeits business model in terms of revenue earning. Earlier, license fee that the firm received on itssoftware’s was its major source of income. Company’s top managers decided to dotransformation of the business. They launch a plan related to cloud business service where allsoftware’s and applications of the firm were to be available (Building momentum by abandoningannual performance reviews for “Ceck-ins”, 2012). Users have to pay subscription fee forspecific time period and in return they can download any software of the firm. The real issue wasthat top managers transform the business but does not make reasonable changes in theperformance review procedure that supports the new business model. So, these were two basicreasons that were responsible for abandon of traditional performance review. Both these reasonsare discussed below.Loopholes in the traditional performance review – There were number of errors in thetraditional performance review system. Grading system was one of them under whichvarious categories were prepared and all employees were listed on these classificationsaccording to their performance. Adobe’s, annual performance review process was alsoknown by the name stack ranking. Every employee’s main target was to get maximumpoints or credits in order to come onthe top class position in performance appraisal. Thisthinking and approach of performance review had put negative impact on the employees.In order to get more and more points and to come among top 20 list, they started making
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