Employee performance monitoring system

• US 20020184085A1
• Filed: 05/31/2001
• Published: 12/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Goldman Sachs & Company (Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Lindia, Stephen A., Morfe, Simeon
• Granted Patent: US 8,744,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A fully automated 360° employee review system that is suitable for corporate intranet or Web-based Internet applications. The system enables multi-perspective employee data collection from various sources such as an employee'"'"'s superiors, peers, subordinates, clients and the employee himself. The system also permits a participant to select persons whose employment performance the employee desires to review but is not obligated to review. The system requires a managerial approval or denial both the reviewers an employee may select to review his or her performance and the reviewees the reviewer chooses to review. The system also permits managers or mentors to receive interim employee performance feedback and generate interim employee action plans between annual performance evaluations. In addition, the system permits a user to download the application and participate in the system'"'"'s employee performance surveys while offline and disconnected from the corporate intranet or the World Wide Web.

Claims

1. A computerized employee performance review system comprising:

selecting means for enabling a user to select a person whose employment performance the user desires to review;

input means for inputting employee performance review information into the system;

processor means for processing employee performance review information input into the system; and

storage means for storing employee performance review information input into the system.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said selecting means is further operable to enable the user to select at least one of himself, a superior, a peer, a subordinate and a client to review the user'"'"'s employment performance.

3. The system of claim 1 said input means enables inputting of said employee performance review information over a communication network.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the communication network is the Internet.

5. The system of claim 3 wherein the communication network is a business enterprise intranet.

6. The system of claim 3 further comprising means for enabling the user to input said employee performance review information while disconnected the communication network.

7. The system of claim 2 further comprising means for requiring approval by the user'"'"'s manager of persons selected by the user to review the user'"'"'s employment performance and persons selected by the user whose employment performance the user desires to review prior to processing and storage of employee performance review information input into the system by the user.

8. The system of claim 2 further comprising means for preloading into said storage means a roster of persons with whom the user has had substantial employment related interaction during a relevant review period, wherein said roster of persons includes that may be selected by the user to review the user'"'"'s employment performance and persons that may be selected by the user whose employment performance the user desires to review.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising means for enabling the user to enter additional persons into said roster.

10. A method for conducting an employee performance review program on a computerized system, said method comprising the steps of:

selecting, by a user of the system, a person whose employment performance the user desires to review;

inputting employee performance review information into the system by the user;

processing employee performance review information input into the system by the user; and

storing employee performance review information input into the system by the user.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of selecting, by the user, at least one of himself, a superior, a peer, a subordinate and a client to review the user'"'"'s employment performance.

14. The method of claim 11 said inputting step comprises inputting of said employee performance review information over a communication network.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the communication network is the Internet.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the communication network is a business enterprise intranet.

17. The method of claim 14 further comprising enabling the user to input said employee performance review information while disconnected the communication network.

18. The method of claim 11 further comprising requiring approval by the user'"'"'s manager of persons selected by the user to review the user'"'"'s employment performance and persons selected by the user whose employment performance the user desires to review prior to processing and storage of employee performance review information input into the system by the user.

19. The method of claim 11 further comprising preloading into said storage means a roster of persons with whom the user has had substantial employment related interaction during a relevant review period, wherein said roster of persons includes that may be selected by the user to review the user'"'"'s employment performance and persons that may be selected by the user whose employment performance the user desires to review.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising enabling the user to enter additional persons into said roster.