ANNUAL INTERVIEWS (MAPS)

For the performance appraisal of reference year 2003, the interview calendar has been fixed between 1 January and 31 March 2004. This new calendar gives a better time schedule to the supervisors to conduct the interviews. This may also be necessary due to the roles of different supervisors resulting from the particular situations of the new CERN structure as from 2004. With this later time limit, the new departments are invited to strictly respect the target date of 31 March.
The report form template is as last year available on the HR Division Website. A banner on the internal homepage: http://cern.ch/hr-div will lead directly to the page with the form.
The personal data for the first page of the form can be generated by each divisional hierarchy, by the Divisional Administrative Officer (DAO) or by the staff member himself via HRT.
Following discussions about the first two years of MAPS, and in order to improve the performance appraisal process, some modifications have been brought to section 2 (Assessment) of the MAPS form. The supervisor is still expected to give a balanced analysis of the staff member's performance, applying the six criteria as relevant for the specific requirements of the functions. He will however no longer be required to summarize this analysis on a three-point rating scale. In order to give a more complete feedback to the staff member, it has also been decided that the group leader will give his evaluation, make his comments, as required, and sign before the staff member receives the form for signature.
Finally, several technical improvements have been made to section 3b.

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