Rooting Out Toxic Leaders (360 Degree Army Evaluations)
10.10.2011 at 08:49pm
Rooting Out Toxic Leaders by Michelle Tan, Army Times.
Effective Oct. 1, officers will be required to assert that they have completed a 360-degree evaluation – where the officer is graded by his subordinates, peers, subordinates and superiors – within the past three years.
Requiring officers to complete 360-degree evaluations should encourage them to grow and, at the same time, weed out potential toxic habits among officers, officials said.
A recent survey of more than 22,630 soldiers from the rank of E-5 through O-6 and Army civilians showed that roughly one in five sees his superior as “toxic and unethical,” while 27 percent said they believe their organization allows the frank and free flow of ideas…
