More on 360 Degree Feedback

About.com Human resources with Susan M. Heathfield has this: “360 Degree Feedback: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Defines and Examines Multirater Feedback”

This article explains what 360 degree feedback is: — “a method and a tool that provides each employee the opportunity to receive performance feedback from his or her supervisor and four to eight peers, reporting staff members, co-workers and customers” — and then discusses pros and cons and benefits and pitfalls.



Good HR stuff.

As I believe I’ve said before, from the lawyer’s perspective, such feedback can have the benefit of neutralizing claims that one person or another had a discriminatory attitude. (E.g., if all these people agreed the employee had a lousy attitude, maybe they were right, even if Joe Supervisor was a racist pig)