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How Appraisals are scored/rated

At the end of each appraisal period, Assessors are to rate each performance objective as:

  • Improvement Required (IR)
  • Met Expectation (ME)
  • Exceeded Expectation (EE)

What parameters constitute a rating for core values are defined by HR. Assessors will define that of key business areas. For any rating other than “Met Expectation”, comments are REQUIRED from the assessor. This will enable the company/organisation to institute appropriate reward systems for individuals when Expectations are “Exceeded” and also Developmental Plans to check and remediate poor performance where Improvement is Required.

Core Values Scoring

All core values objectives have a Priority Rating of “3”. We recommend that you have 5 Core Values to be assessed.

SPPAS will assign an overall rating for the Core Values titled “Core Values Score” at the end of each review period. A rating for the Core Value Section would be as follows:

When a review has 5 or more Core Values objectives:

Core Values ScoreCriteria
Exceeded Expectation (EE)3 or more EEs and Zero (0) IRs
Met Expectation (ME)A combination of MEs, EE and one (1) IR
Improvement Required (IR)2 or more RIs, and a combination of ME and EE

When a review has 4 or less Core Values objectives:

Core Values ScoreCriteria
Exceeded Expectation (EE)All ratings are EE
Met Expectation (ME)A combination of EEs and MEs
Improvement Required (IR)One (1) or more RIs

Overall Scoring

SPPAS will assign an overall rating titled “Overall Score” at the end of each review period. All Key Business Areas together with Core Values Score are taken into account when calculating the overall summary of Contribution of employees. Core Values Score will be given a priority of 3.

An overall rating of contribution is calculated as follows:

Overall ScoreCriteria
Exceptional Contribution (EC)
  • Achieve EE ratings in all priority 3 objectives.
  • Achieve ME ratings in all priority 1 and 2 objectives.
  • No IRs in any performance objective area (priorities 1, 2 or 3).
Outstanding Contribution (OC)
  • Achieve EE ratings in 50% or more of priority 3 objectives.
  • No RIs in priority 3 objectives.
  • At most one (1) IR in priority 1 and or 2 objectives.
Met Expectation (ME)
  • Achieve a combination of EEs, MEs and IR in priorities 1, 2 and 3 objectives.
  • At most one (1) IR in the overall performance.
Improvement Required (IR)
  • Achieve a combination of EEs, MEs and IRs in priorities 1, 2 and 3 objectives.
  • Two (2) or more IRs ratings achieved in the overall performance.

You can read this blog post for further clarification.