Now, every day can be an appraisal meeting

Many companies are nowadays moving with the pace of the present age where trends change with a blink of an eye.

In a bid to have real time feedback from their employees, several organisations are going for regular and more frequent feedbacks.

Some are even going for weekly assessment.

For instance, KPMG asked its employees to have frequent conversations with their managers to get a feedback on their performances.

Shalini Pillay, partner and head (people, performance and culture) at KPMG in India, told ET, "We are encouraging real-time feedback through ongoing conversations. If a manager has worked on a project, he wants to get a feedback so that he can take corrective action. We are reiterating to performance managers it's their role to give feedback and help their teams develop in their careers. We believe this will create a culture of real-time feedback."

Even RPG Enterprises launched a tool called 'critical incident diary' to capture real-time feedback.

"Both employee and manager can view the diary and the entries but cannot edit out each other's comments. Memories fade... it removes the recent effect and provides for a richer conversation between the employee and manager," S Venkatesh, President (group HR), RPG Enterprises, told ET.

BookMyShow introduced 'weekly wrap' in which managers rate employees on each Friday.

Shamita Ghosh, DGM (HR), BookMyShow, told ET, "Every Friday, managers get a reminder SMS that their team members need to be rated. There's also a comment section to explain the rating they have given. Employees have time to get back to their managers if they are not happy with the ratings and, with mutual consent, the ratings can be changed.”

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