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Old February 3rd, 2007, 14:05   #26
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Default Re: An Apology to Colgan Pilot on Jetcareers

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Pilot602 - your problem is easy to solve, 360 degree performance apprasial will count as merit.
I'm not 100% sure what "360 degree performance appraisal" means, but if you're talking about a comprehensive analysis of a pilot's job performance, that would be impossible. If you've got a pilot group of, say, 2000 folks, each of whom fly 60 legs a month with four or five different captains/FO's, it's going to be impossible to get a good idea of how good an employee they are. Sure, you can look at on-time performance, violations, maintainance issues, etc, but they'd have to look at each individual situation and it's not going to be cost-effective to do that (not to mention the probably dubious objectivity of the HR people who are doing the evaluations).

I'm not crazy about the seniority-based system, as I'm sure there's captains out there who probably shouldn't be, but like pilot602 said to come up with a decent merit-based system is going to be really difficult.
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