TCS is planning to build a tech platform after it moved away from Bell Curve appraisal model

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) moved away from the Bell Curve model of appraisal and now is mulling over the new one.

TCS is planning to bring in different models of appraisals for its IT and BPO employees and rework its increment system from the scratch.

It is likely that some employees will be assessed on the basis on project completion, doing away with the half yearly method.

"There will be separate appraisal systems for IT and BPO employees and we are even looking at how senior executives should be appraised. This is all being tested out now. Nothing firm has been decided,” a TCS executive with knowledge of the matter told ET.

TCS might also build a platform where regular feedbacks would be recorded.

"The system for BPO employees would be more based on social media, like the internal Knome platform we currently use,” the executive said told ET.

TCS will do appraisal once in a year, instead of half-yearly appraisals, targeted employees would move to a project-end appraisal cycle - and that the projects could last anywhere from two months to a year.

Apart from TCS, HCL Technologies is also building new platforms for appraisals.

Infosys has already launched iCount platform this year.