They may even alter scores to help themselves or injure others. Might Create Hostile Work Environment Workers might feel that other employees purposely scored them low because they don t necessarily like the person being rated. This might lead to arguments and a possible hostile work environment. Arguments for 360 degree feedback Credibility and Validity Results of assessment research show multi rater systems to be more reliable, accurate, credible, and predictably valid over single rater systems. Support Among Employees Organizations that use 360-degree feedback developmentally find that employees voluntarily share information with supervisors.
Many employees say it is irresponsible to ignore good information from other employees.
The supervisor may not be positioned to see job performance especially as the span of supervisory control has increased. Level Of Change Employees who are criticized see that it s just not the supervisor who sees the need for improvement. The employee is more likely to conform to the desired behavior if their co-workers along with the supervisor identify the problem and help the infected through the problem. Valuable Work associates are likely to be more specific about behavioral feedback. Receivers of feedback more be less defensive and more open to others views, and more apt to regard the feedback as credible.