Before we get into the sad part of discussing appraisals, There are a few questions that require answers. How would you quantify human intelligence? How are you expected to justify your performance in IT where you dont have anything as a Standard and all you find in this industry is the everychaning word Change?
To me the only industry which takes total advantage and squeezes their life out of every reasonable middle class knowledagable person is IT industry. Today we are talking about appraisals which had some relevance in the past with 30 to 70% percent hikes happening across different sections. But now there are industry bench marks and all IT majors have tied hands with each other. Result is a planned ball games and the common man in India will never realize the same.
Appraisals in all of Indias Top IT Companies is fraduluent and cheating people. Indian IT companies do not grow beyond a point due to their Indian school of thought thinking, converting dollars to rupees everytime they have to pay an associate.
Appraisal in India is all drama and crap of the highest order.I hate this system.
RE:RE:IT is the industry to talk about
by sridhar devulapally on May 20, 2008 10:20 AM Permalink
I work in a private Bank and the situation is same here too (against my earlier wishful thinking that this could never happen at professional Banking industry !!). Afterall the private guys deeds and acts behave like PRIVATE and the team sitting in their cool chambers enjoy all the cream dictating the terms. We normally forget that basically there's no difference between the coolie and the so called blue collared employee in a multi billion company (barring the dress code please). To quote Rich Dad 'Who are we making richer? by working hard.. day in day out.. long hours.. your employer and your boss.
Year on year promises remain tall and fat, the acts consistently miniscule -reason ?? the rats population is higher than Lion's !! so Lion's share should go to the top and the leftover to ? not rats sir, the entire populae of remaining animals... !!. As long as our fear and our own greed continues every 'successful organisation' behaves in synchronisation. The drama continues..
RE:IT is the industry to talk about
by Aditya Singh on May 20, 2008 10:12 AM Permalink
Yes Nischal, I totally agree with your point of you. Appraisal system in India and Indian companies are nothing than a piece of scrap.
RE:IT is the industry to talk about
by B Basu on May 20, 2008 10:17 AM Permalink
The honeymoon period of IT industry is, sadly, over. That phenomenon will now happen 2 other sunrise industries. That will again last for a few yrs and the cycle will thus continue. As for measuring human intelligence, that is not necessary in the context of industry, as the intelligence value is shown and is measureable in the output and quality of work. There are ways and means in the appraisal systems worldover to quantify intelligence.
