Weird Performance Evaluation

Hi, thanks for your response! Yes, I know that goals are a part of evaluations. But this is the first evaluation I've seen in which company goals, over which I have very little personal influence, were used on a personal level, which severely brought down my (and others’) overall rating. There were 4-5 overarching goals added to all of our evaluations.

Weird, I've NEVER seen that on individual employee evaluations, and I've given them at 5 different organizations. That makes NO sense that YOU would be rated on "employee retention"

The only thing I can think of is if at your facility, all employees are given an annual "profit share" bonus if the organization meets certain performance goals, and this is your organization's way of letting everyone know that the performance goals were not met this year, thus people won't be getting their annual "profit share" bonus.

And it's the second year in a row they rated us on retention. 

Of course, I'm curious how giving employees 1s on things they can't control will affect retention....?

See my post - I added another paragraph as something occurred to me.

I bet you're right about that. Eager to learn about such processes as my MSN education progresses...

"Likely to recommend" was one of the four markers for which we were all given a 1. 

Good times! ??

I would be looking for a new job.  Just another way to keep raises low and penalize workers for things that are out of their control.  Look for a different job with another healthcare organization.  This reflects their lack of respect toward their staff in my opinion to blame them for organizational problems brought about by their own greed.

My opinion a lot of issues would be solved with better staffing, safe and fair patient ratios, enough support staff, respect and good pay, but that is the opposite of what many places are willing to do to fix the real problems which have lead to a mass exodus of nurses from the bedside. 

ChaosCoordinatorRN said:

Hi, thanks for your response! Yes, I know that goals are a part of evaluations. But this is the first evaluation I've seen in which company goals, over which I have very little personal influence, were used on a personal level, which severely brought down my (and others’) overall rating. There were 4-5 overarching goals added to all of our evaluations.

yep...and "magically" that's a convenient excuse for the corporation to give minimal, if any, raise.

Yep, that's what I figured.

I love how they blame us, on an individual level, for their corporate shortcomings. I'm sure even more staff will leave due to the baseless poor employee reviews (and already lowest pay in town), and we are already desperately short-staffed. Those of us who stay will be blamed next year for the staff turnover again (and again and again, etc)