Question

You have a spreadsheet that contains performance data for the staff. How would you organize this data considering that it would be data used for annual performance reviews for each staff member? What are some of the ethical considerations to keep in mind when using this data?

Answer 1

The data can be organised department wise, and can be in descending order of rank or grade of employee. By doing the same each subordinate would fall under their superior. And departmental norms of performance evaluation can be considered specifically for each department's employee.

Ethical considerations to be kept in mind is:

Data of all employees should be kept confidential.

Superiors' data should be kept classified.

Only data of subordinates of a particular superiors be shared with that superior.

Target lines and their achievements periodically should be mentioned before each employee alongside performance reviews provided by their superiors.

It should be considered whether behavioural traits have been satisfied by the employee, w.r.t. team and organisational ethics standard.

It should be Considered whether targets have been achieved keeping in congruence the policies of the organisation.

The appraisal should be a 360 degree appraisal and not only on the basis of target achievement.