Default Rating: Far Exceeds Expectations
Actual Rating: Achieves Expectations
Override Calculated Rating: Yes
Anyone know what this means?
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The ratings were complete bullsh-t this year. Managers on my team decided that they need to have "coaching" conversations with employees in early May to have the backup materials to construct stories for lower ratings across the board. Some of these meetings came just a couple weeks after meetings recognizing success on delivered projects. The timing coincides with assignment of performance management goals to lower the PSP and merit increases. If you got a lower than expected rating, you were also a victim of this coordinated strategy. The ratings and all overhead that goes into documenting them in workday have become a waste of time and only we-ponized against employees.
Shame. Shame. Shame.
You gotta sell the gear to close the gap on PSP
I bet all the Nike kleptomaniacs that spend their days swiping Nike appeal at work and selling their stash for a quick buck on Facebook Market Place rate their productivity in doing so as Far Exceed or Exceptional.
@ea In general yes, but your numbers are wrong. (obvious tell, why would a negative rating be mandatory for managers). Also, rating only impacts PSP when it's negative, which you half implied by saying successful (meets now) and exceptional (exceeds now). I'm guessing you were laid off at least a year ago given your outdated info.
While there are floors/ceilings for each rating level, there is no PSP modifier any longer for doing an "exceptional" job vs a "successful" job.
0-5% Exceptional
10-20% Highly Successful
50-75% Successful
10-20% Inconsistent
0-5% Unsatisfactory
Ratings are going to be compressed downward more so for this cycle than previous years. Budgets are much tighter so there's a financial motivation to award lower ratings but there's also a push to fight "ratings inflation" from the past.
Whether that inflation issue is just perception, a convenient false narrative or a fact no one will probably have the full story but regardless, it's being used as an additional rationale for lowering ratings.
As has been correctly called out before, ratings and pay are often not directly connected but they do influence each other. Long story short, it's all a political game and corporate management theater to justify a ridiculous level of management overhead to bolster the fairytale that we work in a meritocracy.
Expect the least and the probably the worst from your management and be pleasantly surprised if they pull out some form of mediocre decision making and communication about your performance.
What happened if you see the inverse of this scenario? What mine said.
what happens when the review has illegal elements like attacking protected characteristics or willful retaliation despite being on legal notice. Can the VP claim plausible deniability and isolate the issue down to the manager?
@a9 that's a good answer. But there is a human behind the act of dropping a Far Exceeds down multiple steps, let's be honest, it's likely personal.
@a9 always appreciate when people provide an honest response.
Here's a real answer.
The way a manager does ratings is to go through three steps: meeting business goals, meeting Leadership Defined, and that person's overall rating. If someone marked you Far Exceeds for Business, Far Exceeds for Leadership Defined, the default rating suggested by Workday will be Far Exceeds. A manager can still decide to override that and mark you as Achieves Expectations. Or, someone in HR or a VP can override the manager's Far Exceeds rating and mark it as Achieves Expectation. Probably one of those two scenarios happened here.
Why? Because for any given organization, something like 70-80% are supposed to be Achieves, 10-20% are supposed to be Exceeds and 5-10% are supposed to be Far Exceeds, so there is some calibration at the manager, director, and VP level.
This question suggests that this was somehow exposed in the backend - likely to the manager, I highly doubt to the employee.
Getting Exceeds or Far Exceeds does not make you more or less likely to get laid off.
Source: did lots of performance reviews.
@a2 assuming this is snarky sarcasm?
@OP it means you are out next round