Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The women and men in whites are central to the Indian Navy’s SHIPS FIRST approach and will continue to remain its greatest asset. Towards promoting their professional and personal development, the Indian Navy recognises that an agile, adaptive, and advanced human resource management is imperative.
In this area, the Indian Navy has institutionalised a novel transformative initiative of ‘360 Degree Appraisal Mechanism’ for various promotion boards.
The present appraisal mechanism of periodic confidential reports by senior officers, has an inherent limitation of a ‘Top-down’ approach, as it does not cater for or quantify a leader’s impact on subordinates. The Indian Navy’s ‘360 degree appraisal mechanism’ is aimed to address this shortfall by encompassing large-scale surveys from suitably identified peers and subordinates for every officer being considered for promotion.
The survey comprises a spectrum of questions, encompassing aspects such as professional knowledge, leadership attributes, suitability in war/ crisis and potential for holding higher ranks.
