Yesterday I suffered my worst bout of culture shock in terms of going from working for NXP Semiconductors Ltd – a very commercial, private equitied company into Southampton Solent University.
I was in an appraisal training meeting.
I checked through the relevant HR forms and asked where the box is for entering an overall rating.
Answer – there is no overall rating.
After 17 years of having salary / promotion decided on a 1 to 5 out of 5 rating this is some difference.
Also, appraisals are a relatively new idea here ……
The NXP system was at times unfair, but there has to be a happy medium there somewhere.
