Performance reviews are just employers controlling the narrative when employees are underpaid
Right?
If you underperform, brutal negotiations ensue … prove your value or the deal is off.
Buuut, if you’re overperforming, you get gold stickers and praise, and the possibility of a pay bump through a process controlled by the employer …
instead of you telling the employer that *they* have to prove their value or the deal is off.
Instead over performing then becomes the expectation.
So far I haven’t had to deal with under performer. I got 2 high performers that I could promote. 3 that got promoted outside of my domain (I didn’t have senior positions available to promote those). I also have employees that are doing their jobs just as it should - which is also good in my opinion. Everybody is happy so far. I have to push a bit my reviews as higher management is puzzled by the absence of poor reviews but that’s my job I guess.
Should I be confronted with a low performer what are you propose I do? Leave it as it is? Others - including myself - would be compensating because we don’t get less work.
I’m not talking about some low energy or personal concerns which can effect temporarily someone but a true issue that lasts over a year.