Military Employee Evaluation System

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Chapter I: Problem Definition
Background
Employee evaluation is a standardized, measured, and mechanical employee review process to track employee growth and maximize efficiency in the workplace (Green & South, 2006). According to Green and South (2006), most leaders and human resource departments understand the fundamental process of employee reviews: Evaluations help ensure acknowledgement for high performing employees, and it helps in retaining midlevel performers on track toward the success of reasonable goals. Also, evaluations help administrators deal with low performers by providing a clear record of all determinations made to avoid termination. These objectives are all important aspects of performance tracking and workplace management; …show more content…

S Department of the Army, 2007). Officers and warrant officers receive an Officer Evaluation Report (OER) and NCOs receive a Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Report (NCOER). The evaluation report is the tool that leaders use by the rating chain to evaluate an officer’s and NCO’s performance and prospective. According to the (U. S Department of the Army (2007).), the evaluation report is an important practice that Human Resources Command (HRC) used to cogitate soldiers for schools, future assignments, promotion, and retention in the army. Commonly, when an assessment is presented to the rated soldier, the soldier disagrees with the evaluation because they feel that the evaluation is not fair. When this happens, the rated soldier must approach the rating chain to discuss their concerns. Although, sometimes the differences can be resolved at this level, however, there are times when the rated soldier feels that their evaluation is unfair and will pursue assistance from their local Inspector General (IG) chain (U. S Department of the Army, …show more content…

The purpose of this study is to determine if the evaluation system the army uses is a fair, comprehensive, or effective.
Research Objective
This study will focus on employee assessment to increase retention in the military. Numerous questions related to enactment of best practices personnel evaluation were investigated in this study. Broadly, these questions include: What is the implication of OER and NCOER within the army regarding retention? How closely does the army evaluation system impact retention? Based upon these questions and the principles identified as being essential features of best practice evaluation techniques, the following questions were investigated:
1. What kind of settings (officer and enlisted), of what scale (senior, midlevel, and baby boomers), what populations and purpose (formative or summative), is the army using for the best personnel evaluation techniques?
2. Why the system is not effective? How was it determined that the system was not

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