Performance assessment and Professional development

By Emma

Nowadays, performance appraisal is quite popular in many companies, especially in some excellent corporations. According to my domain knowledge(my previous major is business management), the result of performance assessment has some connection with the professional development. If one gets a great score in performance test, he/she may have an opportunity for promotion, salary raising, overseas training and so on. Therefore, most employees are paying much attention on performance test, and trying their best to reach a high score. but meanwhile, in order to fairly compete, there are many ways for testing(e.g. 360°performance appraisal).

But different department has its own job responsibility. In my father’s company, the achievement of a marketing worker is judged by how many real clients he/she brings to the company. As a worker in product line, the achievement of his/her is judged by the quality and quantity of the products he/she can produce. But unfortunately, it is still not a perfect company--no much promotion space, the only thing which can be called incentive is raising salary or giving bonus or giving annual rewards.