Individual performance appraisals are perfect to destroy the cohesion in a team
Taking months to recover from it
Individual performance appraisals are powerful:
they can split the unity of your team;
they can demotivate the members of your team;
they can help your team to focus on individual goals, instead of team goals.
It gets even more powerful when these individual appraisals are given:
while not considering how people met the objectives;
while looking at how much you like or need a person, not on what she or he achieved;
and then bargaining with appraisals as if you play a game of Tetris (where numbers have to fit perfectly).
Playing with individual appraisals is like playing with fireworks. You better know exactly what you do, otherwise it may blow up right in your face.
Playing with individual appraisals is like playing with fireworks. You better know exactly what you do, otherwise it may blow up right in your face.
To help your team collaborate and focus on the team goals, make these team goals more important than individual goals. You may even be better off without individual appraisals entirely.