The concept of surveying the performance of the employees is not new; however the idea of having the multiple employees rating a specific employee to have an unbiased input is relatively a young concept. This type of evaluation system works in quite an effective way to collect valuable information about the employees, in terms of their performance at work, productivity, skills and competencies, attitude, behaviors and a lot more.

The 360 degree evaluation helps the employees to understand in a better way about their weaknesses and strengths. However, in order to get the appropriate results, it is very important to carefully select the raters, who are going to provide the feedback. They must have direct working experience with the specific employee on a regular basis. Definitely the biases of other employees would enter into the evaluation process.

Thus, it is quite essential to include sufficient number of people, to get away from the inherent biases and opinions in the evaluation process. The idea behind conducting 360 degree evaluation is to have a fair understanding of what others feel and how they view the target employee’s performance, with respect to various performance factors and specific competencies. This helps the employees to have a clear idea of the areas which need improvement and the areas where they are doing well. This also instills a sense of confidence and accomplishment, besides encouraging the employees to do better and significantly contributes in achieving the organization’s overall goal.