Why can’t we evaluate our supervisors?
I wish the PMAP included an element on rating and reviewing your supervisor. My supervisor, for instance, is terrible. I actually have complained about him before with little to no recourse. He has no clue what any of us on my team actually do. He never responds to emails, and I have often had others outside my chain of command reach out to me because he isn’t answering them either and asking me for help. When his terrible management results in our team being unable to deliver, he quickly blames us. He doesn’t respect work-life balance at all, plus a whole host of other things that would put him in a low rating category. His direct supervisor takes his word for it and I’m sure that he inflates his own PMAP to look as if he is actually doing much more than he actually does, and definitely taking credit for our successes for which he has had zero part in. I feel that if those on the team were able to rate him on elements such as “customer service” and “working closely with team to achieve outcomes” or “respects work-life balance” or “states clear expectations” , he might actually clean up his act or at least be moved somewhere he would be “more effective” as a supervisor. I know the previous (now non-existent) FEV survey maybe captured some of this but I still don’t think it looked at individual supervisors or situations. Ok so part of this is to vent obviously, but also to do some wishful thinking. I know it’s a long shot that we could see change, even before this administration made things worse.