The Washington Post reports that the outsourcing company says it is doing away with the system in September. The multinational which employs 330,000 people worldwide has taken the decision because performance management didn’t achieve its main goal of improving staff performance.
The firm, whose staff include PCS members, will disband rankings and the once-a-year evaluation process starting in the fiscal year 2016, which for Accenture begins this September. It will implement a more fluid system, in which employees receive timely feedback from their managers on an ongoing basis following assignments.
Others have already scrapped it including consulting and accounting giant Deloitte, Microsoft did away with its rankings nearly 2 years ago, attracting particular attention since it had long evangelised about the merits of its system that judged employees against each other.
Massively unpopular
PCS is campaigning to consign the massively unpopular performance management system which plagues civil servants to the dustbin.
The current civil service performance management system is divisive, unfair and should be scrapped. It is being used to dismiss staff, including PCS reps, with the Cabinet Office stating that the 10% of staff in the “must improve” category will face possible dismissal if their performance doesn’t reach the required standard.
We are giving PCS reps and members advice and guidance for dealing with performance management, particularly in circumstances where low box markings are forced on individual members.
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