Ah, it’s Performance Review time. I’m glad that my company, unlike some, make the criteria in which employees are being assessed, open to all. I know of companies which don’t, something which I think is unfair because it doesn’t give the employee a chance to defend him/herself in event of a negative review given by the his/her manager. Someone who works in a company which practises such nondisclosure told me that (in the case of her company) the company does this because the managers are uncomfortable about confrontation and don’t like having to talk to their subordinates about such things.
Sounds to me like a typical Asian mentality where having such feedback is deemed more as a grading exercise meant to find only faults. While I don’t deny it’s a grading exercise of sorts, I think it’d be good to take this more positively and see it as an opportunity for growth and improvement. Of course it helps very much if one has an approachable manager, as I do, and for which I’m thankful for.
Anyway, now the hard part is assessing one’s self. Apart from being assessed, I have to do a self-review too. I don’t suppose one should do the typical Asian thing of being too modest in this case. Heh.