Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 36
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2 MR. MORRIS: If we move on from that to performance reviews -- I
3 am checking if Michael Logan says anything on that.
4 Right. You said about handwriting each performance review
5 for which you were responsible?
6 A. That is right.
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8 Q. That was the general practice, though, was it not,
9 everybody hand wrote the performance reviews?
10 A. No. What I meant by handwriting was when I was
11 responsible for the training squad reviews, I not only gave
12 them the printed form they got anyway, but I gave them an
13 A4 side of paper with a specific set of goals on as well.
14 The idea was to make them feel part, more part of the
15 management team.
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17 Q. So you added an extra page of goals?
18 A. Well, instead of just having the three or four lines on
19 the bottom of their performance review, it was felt that
20 you needed to specify their goals a bit clear to enable
21 them to be a bit clearly defined. So we took the view that
22 whoever was doing the training squad performance reviews
23 did that, so I was doing it at the time and I did it.
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25 Q. I did not quite catch all the answer to that, sorry. There
26 was a time, is it not the case, when Michael Logan was
27 going through performance reviews with individual crew
28 members, even though he had not done the performance
29 reviews?
30 A. There were times when we wrote performance reviews,
31 discussed them at Managers' meetings, and individuals were
32 given the performance reviews to give to the relevant crew
33 members on their shift.
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35 Q. Right. Michael Logan would have been one of those people?
36 A. There are occasions when he probably would have done
37 that, yes.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do you mean, actually just handed them
40 the form with ------
41 A. For instance, we came to a Managers' meeting, we wrote
42 the performance reviews in the meeting for, say, six
43 employees for the following week, and I wrote a particular
44 -- I was the one who actually physically wrote a
45 particular employee's performance reviews after discussion
46 with the rest of the managers, and I was away for the
47 following week, it would make sense if the PR was due to
48 get another Manager to actually go through it with them
49 rather than waiting until I, say, came back off of holiday
50 or from a course.
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52 MR. MORRIS: Complaints about performance reviews being late,
53 did they come up at rap sessions from what you can recall
54 from reading the notes?
55 A. I assume they did. I cannot remember any specific rap
56 sessions where people complained about them, but I can
57 assume that they did come up.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How long would the notes of a typical rap
60 session be?
