360 degree evaluation involves the evaluation of an employee with the help of all other employees working in the organization. The approach involves an extremely easy procedure. A questionnaire is given to the co workers, supervisors, managers and other employees of the organization. Through this questionnaire, all these people present their opinion regarding the targeted employee. The views expressed by all these employees remain confidential. This procedure is applied to all the employees of the organization in order to work on their flaws and weaknesses and then finally to get rid of them.

This technique is very highly popular as it provides with useful information about the employees. Further, the manager gets to know their strengths and weaknesses. 360 degree evaluation is then followed by a number of steps to work on the weaknesses of the employees. Thus, it can be said that this approach gives the opportunity of evaluating the performance of the employees and then to work on the areas where there is scope of improvement. Today, almost all big as well as small organizations are following this useful technique and working towards better results and success of their business.