I'm just confused. At first I thought they were joking, but I got the questionnaire today. It consists of 4 columns of traits or behaviors, and I am supposed to check whatever in that column I think my co-workers see in me, ie "easy to approach", "willing to try new things", "soft spoken", etc. You add the number of check marks in each column and use a simple formula to find out where I am in a 4 category pie chart. The chart is color coded so that color will be displayed at my desk and go into my employee file. I forget what the exact phrasing is for these categories but they break down into: Leader, Planner, Innovator, and Stupid Idiot who can't say no so will get all the crap jobs with no rewards (I think this one is something like "selfless and dependable"
) Yeah, guess what one I fall into.
First of all, I think it's stupid and a waste of money. I work in a call center and don't have to interact with a "group" per say. We handle each call as it comes in, there are no groups or committees or think tanks. Second of all, why do we have to say how OTHER people perceive us? To be of any value at all, shouldn't it be how we perceive ourselves? And finally, I just don't like it! If this goes into our employee files, does that mean only people coded red for leader get offered supervisor positions? Or only people coded green are able to move up to trainers? Could they decide to let someone go because their are too many yellows (the stupid idiots that don't say no) and not enough blues (the Innovators)? People are really not happy about this, and it honestly rubs me the wrong way. Has anyone else every dealt with this?
First of all, I think it's stupid and a waste of money. I work in a call center and don't have to interact with a "group" per say. We handle each call as it comes in, there are no groups or committees or think tanks. Second of all, why do we have to say how OTHER people perceive us? To be of any value at all, shouldn't it be how we perceive ourselves? And finally, I just don't like it! If this goes into our employee files, does that mean only people coded red for leader get offered supervisor positions? Or only people coded green are able to move up to trainers? Could they decide to let someone go because their are too many yellows (the stupid idiots that don't say no) and not enough blues (the Innovators)? People are really not happy about this, and it honestly rubs me the wrong way. Has anyone else every dealt with this?