How objective are appraisals, really?
We are always told that senior management will ultimately do an objective appraisal, but I'm curious because they aren't the ones supervising us and if our bosses don't want us to advance, they can easily keep our visibility and capability down.
I was previously under 2 bosses who gave me competent-exceeding grades yearly. 2 years ago I got a new boss (the previous 2 quit) and since then my grades have become below-average for the past 2 years. And the previous bosses are no longer around to defend me.
In a situation like this, can we ask HR to reasses our grading based on past appraisals? Like why is it we used to have good performance gradings but a new boss's given grades are substantially different?
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