Issue No. 142 模擬

"Employees should not be asked to provide formal evaluations of their supervisor because they have little basis for judging or understanding their supervisor's performance."

The assertion in question is that employees should not be asked to provide formal evaluations of their supervisor's performance. I disagree with this assertion for the following three reasons.

First of all, employees are in fact competent to evaluate the performance of their supervisor. It is nonsense to suggest that they have little basis for judging a supervisor's performance. More than anybody else, it is the people working directly "below" the supervisor who are in a position to assess his performance. Obviously, it is they who are most familiar with the work environment overseen by their supervisor. With a first-hand understanding of their jobs, they are perfectly competent to judge him on such relevant matters as team leadership and clarity of communication.

In addition, a formal evaluation of a supervisor reflects how is viewed by his subordinates. These evaluations do more than provide information for his employers: they also provide him with valuable information as well - such as guidance on how he might improve himself as a supervisor. Even those evaluations that he deems mistaken or unfair can prove to be important, if only for the simple reason that they alert him to a misunderstanding between his subordinates and himself that should be cleared up.

Finally, a formal evaluation of a supervisor gets the employees to think about their relation to their supervisor in a fairly intelligent way. With an official way in which to communicate their concerns in writing, they have to articulate them in a constructive way. Moreover, without any official mechanism by which to communicate their grievances, their talk may turn into vicious gossip. Besides, with a means to communicate their concerns at their disposal, they have less reason to whine that "Nobody listen to us."

In summary, I disagree with the assertion that employees should not be asked to provide formal evaluations of their supervisor. First, the argument is simply false that they have no basis for the supervisor as to how he might improve himself in the job. Finally, with an official mechanism of communicating in place, the employees are encouraged to criticize in a constructive way.

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