iceman2018
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It's about time or bad idea?
It's about time or bad idea?
Peer reviews aren't valuable although I certainly would have appreciated "I'll grade you and you grade me" in school. Maybe my GPA would have been higher.
Does CGA not do peer rankings? At USNA all mids rank their peers and the underclass as you move up in rank, which was taken seriously and done with the proper gravitas by about, oh, 25% of mids (same thing happened with "spear evals" at TBS). It was always fun playing the "okay, what jerk gave me 'sleepy?!'" game.
In all seriousness though, I'm not sure how effective training to ensure that senior officers are "fully aware of military regulations" really would be in reducing misconduct. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of these guys bending the rules are already "fully aware" and know pretty well what they're doing. Maybe I'm just cynical, but how anonymous are the subordinate reviews actually going to be? I'd like to think that most officers are honest and have enough integrity to say to their boss what they actually think of him...but at the end of the day he's the guy that signs off on your FITREP.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that many people in the military scoff at the idea of peer reviews. They are fairly common amongst the most successful private sector companies, but still fairly new to our military where "top-down" remains the standard for most things.
360 Reviews and the like give you a chance to see yourself as others see you. That can be incredibly valuable. Though it does take a certain amount of courage and acceptance to realize that to spite your best efforts, others may percieve your actions/approach differently.
One of those axioms that I heard for a long time but never quite came to understand the import of until later in life.... "Perception IS Reality".
i don't think it's about them being scared, I think anonymity puts the focus on the content of the peer review and removes the tendency for the reviewed to attach bias to the validity of the review based on the reviewer. Even if the review is exactly on point but comes from someone the reviewed doesn't like, they would be likely to discount it because their feelings were hurt. Anonymity removes that in my opinion.
i don't think it's about them being scared, I think anonymity puts the focus on the content of the peer review and removes the tendency for the reviewed to attach bias to the validity of the review based on the reviewer. Even if the review is exactly on point but comes from someone the reviewed doesn't like, they would be likely to discount it because their feelings were hurt. Anonymity removes that in my opinion.