Survey of members

In one of the biggest surveys PCS has ever conducted, over 27,000 members responded to questions about performance management. The full results and analysis from the survey will be released as a report during the week of action, but the survey told us:

• Over 90% of members think that the forced ranking system is unfair;
• Over 60% of members described their overall experience of performance management as ‘mainly negative’;
• One third of members spend longer than four hours preparing for and undertaking their performance review;
• 45% of members say they have ‘no influence’ on their performance objectives;
• In their day-to-day work, three-quarters of members ‘rarely’ or ‘never’ refer to the objectives that they have been set.

Week of Action: 27 June – 1 July

As part of PCS’ ongoing campaign we are asking all branches to encourage members to get involved in a week of activity focusing on performance management.

The week’s activities will be based on the following:

Monday, 27 June: MPs will table an early day motion (EDM) about performance management in Parliament. EDMs are effectively parliamentary petitions for MPs to show support for a specific issue. All PCS members will be sent an electronic link by email to ask their own MPs to sign the EDM;

Monday, 27 June – Friday, 1 July: Petition signing. We already have 10,000 signatories. We are looking to at least double this number by the end of the week of activity. Petitions are available for printing off here:   http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/resources/performance-management-toolkit/performance-management-toolkit.cfm

Tuesday, 28 June: PCS will release a formal report outlining the main findings from our survey of members.

All week: Members in specific departments who have received a box 3 or equivalent box marking, particularly members from protected characteristic groups, will be asked to consider lodging a grievance or complaint using appropriate departmental procedures against their box marking. Both sets of guidance are available online at: http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/resources/performance-management-toolkit/performance-management-toolkit.cfm