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hewlett21 · Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

Last week I got my first performance appraisal for the job I've been in for 4 months. This is the first real permanent job I have since graduation, and never had a performance appraisal in my previous work experience before.
My supervisor gave the scores, and I accept them with no protest. (Luckily, he gave me good scores.)
My questions are, for my next performance appraisal can I bargain my scores? If yes, to what extent?
Please advice on how to "bargain" the score, I'm really terrible in bargaining as a start.

lexa10881 · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject:

I've never known anyone to negotiate what they were given on an evaluation. I personally have walked away from one after letting my superior know I was highly displeased and thought her unfair at how she ranked me, saying I needed to work harder when I am one of the most ambitious workers we have. She wrote that because a week earlier we had had a disagreement about something; I proved her wrong and she did not like it. If you think you are being given unfair marks, you may want to voice that but do so *carefully* as my super is still mad days later.

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hewlett21 · Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

I never thought that performance appraisals are a one-way scoring system.
But anyway, I will try to examine the possibility of voicing my disagreement and carefully do so. Thank you for the tip.

several questions just popped into my head: iin the company I work in, the "normal" time for an employee to get a raise or promotion is about 2 years. I consider that as a long time for someone to get promoted into a grade higher.
How much chance is performance appraisal will affect your promotion? Does protesting too much will hold you back from promotion, instead?

cv · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: How to get that job promotion

Protesting is never good! Making a good argument is. Normally if you have done a better job than most you will get the raise or promotion. Just doing a good job most times is expected of you, you have to go beyond that to assure yourself a position in the future.

So for your next appraisal
Keep a log of your highlights in the year
Make sure you get those good projects through out the year

Have a look at this :
Job Promotions

Pauloz · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:48 am Post subject:

hewlett21

The short answer is no, and look out.

"Bargaining" usually means tradeoffs for bad performance evaluations, and that's not a position you want to be in.

They're not actual bargains, they're a series of hoops to jump through. Bargaining is done at plea bargain level.

The "bargains" result in your being loaded up with whatever performance benchmarks have come out of the genius factory. That can be really difficult.

The real issue with performance evaluations is whether they're accurate, honest appraisals. Some aren't, hence the "look out".

I've seen people get hit with some pretty outrageous things calling themselves performance evaluations. They were total fabrications, with the lucky recipient being expected to "bargain" to survive. The person bargaining is usually in a very weak position.

lexa's example is a good one, but these situations are very difficult, and winning any point is very hard to do.

Protesting an evaluation means fighting a bureaucratic process that naturally favors the person doing the evaluation, which can be pretty comprehensively counterproductive.

hewlett21 · Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

Thanks for the tips. I'll note it for my next appraisal.

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