I have been working in IT sector from last 7 Years and have gone through the appraisal process in all the companies, I have worked with. In the existing company also, recenlty we had appraisal process. Since then I have trying to think about this word "Appraisal" and about the title. Let's try find out the actual meaning.
As per the meaning found on the internet, the word Appraisal means: "1. An act of assessing something or someone/ 2. An expert estimate of the value of something".
In the company, as per this process we are given a form which contains a set of goals, which are categorized as: Department Goal, Team Goal and, Individual Goal. The employees are asked to do a self assement and rate themselves for each goal. Then there is one-to-one interaction with the Manager who would re-assess the ratings. This process is followed every year so that the employees are made aware of the shortcomings and their achievements in the assessment year. This would help the employee to improve his/her perfromance in the next assessment year.
Now this is what we do every year in our professions, but have we ever done the same process of "Appraisal" in our personal "Life". This is a question that keeps on coming to my mind. We live our lives every single minute, every hour, days, months, and years, but probably have not done the assessment not in a single year. We have taken our lives for granted. As per the definition the Appraisal: "an expert estimiates the value". Who else other than "ourselves" can be the EXPERT of our lives. Now the question is what is to be assessed in our lives.
In the company we work for 8 hours every single day and assess the work that we do. We live our life 24 hours a day and during this time we interact with many people like in the office with our colleagues, during the travel with co-passangers in the bus or, train, at home with our family or relatives. So in our day-to-day life we have become a part of others people's life.
