[MA] I'm an HR Admin and I think my company's "performance review" process needs serious improvement.
My company claims they do annual performance management and I think it's the lamest set up. This month marks my one year and I haven't been told officially if I should expect a performance review. I looked in our HR drive at the 2025 questions and some are meaningless.
First, there is no purpose statement on the "self evaluation" forms. Am I the only one who believes this is necessary? Employees should know what comes of this feedback.. a raise, promotion, a pip, or nothing? How are we evaluated on these open ended questions? Mind you this company does not do regular 1:1s with management, so the questions about goal setting make me laugh because that's never discussed on a regular basis. At least not within my own HR Team.
Then there's the questions they asked. Out of 11, there are 4 questions related to the job itself, 3 questions about goal setting/development, 2 questions about management, and 2 that I don't understand the point of asking. "Do you have any concerns about your work environment," and "Do you have any questions or concerns about the future of the company or your place within it?"
What kind of responses is HR expecting our employees to answer? "No, the work environment is perfect and I have no concerns as they would be looked at as complaints."
Lastly, I'm disappointed nothing in our HR drives mentions pay raises. Is my company the only one that doesn't offer merit or annual pay raises? Which brings me back to the purpose statement or lack there of.
Anyway, I'm just saying this HR operation feels incomplete and irrelevant.