Welcome to earth. It sucks but you will enjoy. Since the baby take birth he get trap in vicious circle of Ranking and Rating. The innocent child, even though system of ranking and rating of child is are done in front of him, not able to understand. Feedback from others are in open but that child is too ignorant to understand any thing. There is difference between Ranking and Rating. When child is compared with other children of same age group then it is peer level ranking. But when child’s attributes are compared as per standard table for healthy child then that child is rated.
Every day , Every month, Every year after passing through all those ranking and ratings, finally child enrolled to school and real pain for him begins and pure model of ranking comes in play every 4/6 months. Children performance get evaluated based on marks they obtained in examination and children are ranked accordingly. This system is ongoing and as age will proceed term-logy improved to AIR (All India Rank) and it further improve to GPA (Grade) but all are same.
In my college though there was no ranking sytem but we engineers do get rated based on our grades (GPA). My HOD (Head of Dept) was the best example. He judge the problem of student based on his/her GPA. In my college 8+ grade was rated as Excellent and 9+ Outstanding. So problem of student with grade> 8 was problem and same will be entertained by our HOD and genuine problem of student with grade <>
My HOD first question “What is your grade?” oh 8.45, good.. have a seat , whats your problem... Ok 6, I have to take lectures and your problem is your grade. J
No wonder if some 9* have asked for permission to stay in Girl hostel, he might have arranged that also. But being a 9* how can he will have such wish and also the wish was not worth at-least in my collage :P
Rating in college was chill,we all were under impression that apart from cut off for company, no where this rating will matter. But we all were wrong. There is one exam CAT though it should be name as Bitch and it gives call for elite institute IIMs’. Here they will penalize you for what you have done a decade back. They do consider matriculation marks. Even Indian law declare people dead after 10 years if his/her where about etc is not found in this period but these Institute will show off their judging criteria as if MBAs are going to do research on AIDS medicine or will do some atomic fissions. Either these super brains has to befool campus guys (HR) or they will sell soap and oil in rural area (Marketing) or will do all kind of crap and shit on some graph and figure (Finance) and will provide their helping hand in growth (Lehman Bros) of company. These finance guys are worsts then Marketing, we expect fictions from marketing guys but if something BIG happen in world Economy, we will find termlogy from some fairy tale will pop ups from their mouth:- “Black Swan”. These institute are top RANKED and they wants top RATED students.
By pass this phase of study as I am lucky enough to not having luxury of that. So no such experience. Though every year I plan to buy lottery tickets but somehow manage to utilize money in better way.
Lets come to so called corporate world. Here every one is rated and not ranked. Also your rating do have monetary benefits, not like college. A rating system compares employee performance to some set of criterion, and produces either a number or a letter grade that supposedly represents the employee's level of performance. In organization every person have different goal, different objective, different complexity of work. So even if people are rated you are not sure whether he/she is accurately rated/under rated or over rated. Performance compared to vague criteria are unmeasurable. But whats in the RATING. You yourself is the better judge You may befool others by feeling your appraisal templates but you cant befool your self. Thus, come to office do you work, show your commitment and leave to home. If every day you are satisfied with the job you have performed then you are rated excellent inside you. Nothing is better than self satisfaction. Don’t strive for rating but do strive for better performance. Whatsoever you are doing, do with excel (not MS office product) Growth (Position+ monitory) is trap and is nominal. There is always a company that will give you more then what you are getting and will promise to give better job. I cant guarantee about JOB in offsore model but yes monetary raise will be good. Why to put so much effort to get less increment. If monitory benefit is the only factor then there is always a company
that will give you raise (5 to 10 times more the % of increment)
In common MNC structure, its very difficult to rate person based on the fixed criterian and thesame time mixing pseudo Ranking system to compare it in Peer. Measuring the un-measurable task on some scale are prone to accounting errors. Perception of every Individual are different and “Performance lies in the eye of beholder”. Though we all know, there should be no discrimination on the basis of caste creed, race, sex. But what about growing professional discrimination in this cut throat competition.
I agree, everyone wants to know hows he doing. Ask this to yourself and your inner heart will give your answer why to depend on other who will just narrate his perception and rate you rank you against your peer and bash you as*. But if you want to know-how well you pretend that you are working … then definitely you need second party.
Don’t do things just for ratings. Do the things for your inner satisfaction. Don’t care about nature of JOB. Put your cent percent effort, commitment on task. It is always good to do what you love but nothing is wrong in loving what you are doing. “Just do it”.
Enough of crap reading. Now get back to your work to get good rating J
(Corporate lecture- to be continued……………..)
Disclaimer: This is totally my view of writing. I completely agree with present rating Now this is what I am doing for my professional rating. hahaha Hypocrate- Isnt it :P. But one have to be.. no body knows who all are reading this when its on internet.
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3 comments:
there has to be a way of separating people on the basis of performance... else, it makes no sense for someone to put in that extra effort.... for money or for recognition.......
they've changed the marking system in board exams... to grades! isn't that funny? what difference does it make... apart from putting a chunk of people into the same bracket, just like the performance appraisal systems.
good read... but there's too much hatred in the lines, why so?
@Dio:Yeah there should be but not whatis in general practice now a days :) and Its nothing about extra effort its all about internal satisfaction though humans are insatiable.
Naah no hatred.. it just for the shake of writing. This is just to share with you what we generally used to do in midnight debate :)
I loved the post.
Some glaring realities, with which we have to deal everyday in office... it would be great if you do a bit of proof reading before posting to remove the grammatical glitches which is so very synonimous with you :)
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