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360-degree feedback

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

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In management & leadership, 360-degree feedback means: A way of assessing an employee by collecting feedback from the people around them, such as their manager, colleagues, direct reports and sometimes customers, along with a self-assessment.

In Turkish: 360 derece geri bildirim, 360 derece değerlendirme

How it is used

Mostly used for managers and leadership development, usually through an anonymous online survey. People also call it a 360-degree review, 360 feedback or simply 'a 360'.

Example sentences

  1. My 360-degree feedback showed that my team wants more regular updates from me.

  2. All new directors go through 360-degree feedback at the end of their first year.

Common collocations

  • 360-degree feedback survey
  • 360-degree review
  • receive 360-degree feedback
  • anonymous 360 feedback
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done a piece of work or behaved, given so that they can keep doing what works and improve what does not.
  • performance reviewA regular formal meeting in which a manager and an employee discuss how well the employee has done their job, agree on a rating and set goals for the next period.
  • appraisalA formal assessment of an employee's work over a period, usually in a meeting with their manager; the word is mainly British for a performance review.
  • direct reportAn employee whose immediate manager is a particular person, with no other manager in between; the people a manager is directly responsible for.
  • talent managementThe way an organisation attracts, develops, keeps and moves its most capable people, so that it has the right skills in the right roles now and in the future.

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