HRM blog post 5

Blog Post 5
Last week we had a good group discussion about feedback. During my internship over the summer I never really received any feedback. I was always kind of curious as to how I was doing. I wasn’t usually given too much responsibility so it was hard for me to judge myself on how I was doing. I learned through the reading that most companies usually do feedback once a year. Since I was only going to be at the company for 3 months this yearly feedback would not apply to me. My boss did sit down with me alone once and he asked me how the internship was going but this was more of a job satisfaction interview rather than a performance review. So the internship ended and I never really got a feel for how he felt about my performance. I had to have him fill out a sheet from the school for the internship. I got it about three weeks after I got done with the internship. On that sheet he reviewed my performance. He put a lot of things in the areas where he thought I could improve. I wish he would have told me these areas to work on while I was there so I could have improved those skills while I had the chance. I am now worried that he won’t give me a very good reference if he gets called by some other companies that I apply for. I felt like my boss didn’t care too much about what I did and wasn’t too concerned about my performance. This was probably because he knew I was a temporary hire but the reason I was doing the internship was to improve my skills and learn. I wish I would have asked him for feedback on how I was doing every couple of weeks while I was there.
In our discussion group we talked about how often people should be receiving feedback. Someone in our group received it weekly at one of her jobs. This was because it was a sales based job and it was kind of like a motivator for the position. We came to the conclusion that feedback should be given as often as needed depending on the position.
We also had a group discussion about job rotation. My uncle works for a hotel. He was rotation through the different positions to better learn all of the aspects of running the hotel. This was to put him in position to be the general manager of one of the hotels eventually. Well when the economy tanked he got stuck in his current position which is lower than where he previously was. To me this is unfair. I think that the hotel should move him back up to his previous position or at least raise his pay back up for the time being. In our group we discussed that there might be a more effective way to help people learn all of the aspect of a certain company rather than just rotating around. We thought some shadowing and training could probably accomplish the same end result.