Self-Evaluation and Managing a Career

What was your best and/or worst performance evaluation? What are your thoughts on evaluating an employee's performance based on what a manager thinks he or she deserves as opposed to what his or her work entails? Support your rationale with examples.

Are the intangibles such as personality, attitude, and behavior as important to consider when evaluating an employee as is his or her work product? Provide some examples to support your rationale.

What evaluation sample do you think is effective to give an accurate evaluation of an employee? What are the risks and returns of both short samples and longer samples of an employee's work productivity? How are you evaluated at work? Do you support it, or would you like to see it changed? Explain.

What is the value of self-managing one's career? What are the concerns? Please explain. Which career management perspective most resembles your current workplace: individuals focusing on themselves, the organization focusing on individuals, or the organization focusing on itself?