Debate Analysis Report Discussion

Team 1 (Defendant): In favor of using 360° feedback for offical employee performance evaluation/review/appraisal.

1. What does research indicate about the prevalence of bias in performance evaluations and how might 360° feedback reduce this bias?
2. How might the use of 360° feedback reduce the stress and anxiety that employees often experience when receiving feedback from their supervisors?
3. Which organizations have switched to using 360° feedback for official employee performance evaluation and how has this benefited both employees and organizations more broadly?

Team 2 (Plaintiff): In favor of using only supervisor ratings for official employee performance evaluation/review/appraisal.

1. In what ways are supervisors more credible raters of employee performance relative to others?
2. How might the use of 360° feedback exacerbate the issues that already exist when using supervisors as the sole raters of employee performance?
3. How might alternative rating sources such as coworkers and/or subordinates be motivated to give an employee a poor evaluation for personal reasons and how does this undermine the integrity of using 360° feedback for official employee performance evaluation?
4. What evidence and/or counter-evidence did you find when preparing for the debate?

Following each debate, members of the audience must submit a debate analysis report. Make sure to cite properly any sources you mention in your debate analysis paper. At a minimum, your paper should address each of the following questions. Please use a numbered list when answering each of the following questions in your assignment submission.

1. What evidence and/or counter-evidence did you find when preparing for the debate?

a.What information did you discover that was not presented during the debate?

i.How might the debate have been affected had this information been presented?

2. What were the most compelling arguments that the plaintiff presented during the debate?

3. What were the most compelling arguments that the defendant presented during the debate?

4. What were the least compelling arguments that the plaintiff presented during the debate?

5. What were the least compelling arguments that the defendant presented during the debate?

6. Which team do you think performed the strongest during the debate? Why?

7. If you could have chosen which side to debate, which side would you have chosen? Why?

8. In what ways, if any, did the debate change your views on the topic, even if only slightly?

9. In addition to each of the previous questions, you need to provide a comprehensive analysis and reflection of the debate. 

This is open-ended to the degree that you can write about whatever you want that is relevant to the debate and how it impacted your knowledge of course topics and information. 

The majority of the points for this assignment come from this analysis portion. So, put a lot of effort when reflecting on your thoughts, opinions, memories, and impressions.