360 Degree Appraisal


360 degree appraisal was developed by General Electric Company of the USA in 1992 and soon got popularity throughout the globe. In India, several companies follow this technique. These companies include Wipro, Reliance Industries, Thomas Cook, Godrej Soaps, Infosys Technologies etc.

Under this technique, employees or manager rating is done by gathering data on a person’s skills, abilities and behavior from everyone above, alongside and below him inside & outside the company for eg. The manager, peers, subordinate, customers and even clients etc. thus appraisal of an employee under this technique is done by his superiors, his peers, his subordinates and clients or outsiders with whom he interacts regularly in the course of his job performance.

In 360 degree appraisal, besides appraising the performance of the assesse his other attributes like behavior, values, technical capabilities are also appraised.

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