They’re not sexist, or racist, or homophobic.
They’re useless.
They evaluate themselves, you evaluate, review together.
Associate acknowledges/signs off on the “gaps in performance” and agrees to a “Personal Improvement Management Plan” or PIMP (I kid you not) that you develop together.
Repeat process with a shorter timeline with incremental reviews that document their failure to meet those “mutually developed & agree to goals”.
I agree. Most of the ones I’ve done over the years are basically corporatespeak gobbledygook that don’t actually say much of anything.
They are also generally designed so that just about everybody falls short of the “score” needed to get more than a minimal raise.