The Crowdsourced Performance Review: How to Use the Power of Social Recognition to Transform Employee Performance

9 Big Data, Crowdsourcing, and the Future of HR

 

Rebecca stood next to a screen in the big conference room, where Hydrolab’s directors gathered for their quarterly meeting.

“Turning to the GeoClean acquisition integration, I’m happy to say the employees who came from GeoClean have overcome their doubts about the crowdsourced performance review process. At the time of acquisition, 68 percent of former GeoClean employees expressed a neutral or ‘somewhat concerned’ attitude toward receiving some of their pay and much of their performance input based on social recognition. A year later, those numbers have flipped: 86 percent are somewhat or very enthusiastic about the system.”

“That includes the managers,” Rebecca said. “Among the employees who ...