Nikhil's View of the world

Almost all of us have an appraisal cycle at the work place. This is supposed to be the time when someone can evaluate the work he/she has done in the entire year and demand for a raise. While reading through some blogs on techrepublic.com I got to this: Are employee self-evaluations worthless?

Here is my take on it:

In my opinion, self-evaluation is important for both the employee as well as the employer. Employee has a chance to exhibit his achievements and the employer can judge the maturity level of an employee through the self-evaluation.
There is no doubt that the employee can rate himself whatever he wants (as suggested in the report). But then, the manager is a manager because he knows his direct reports. The manager is being paid to know the person in-out and hence rate them as per his own knowledge. Self-evaluations are in fact a great chance to see if the person in question is mature enough to be promoted and may be made a manager himself. For, if he can rate himself rightly, he can rate others as well.