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CPA implements supervisor evaluations
The Commonwealth Ports Authority has implemented a new policy allowing CPA staff who do the grunt work to evaluate their supervisors.
The CPA board unanimously voted in a previous meeting to implement the supervisor evaluation policy.
According to CPA chair Kimberlyn King-Hinds, CPA wants to give employees who do the grunt work a process to evaluate their supervisors in order to hold individuals accountable.
“Instead doing a top-down evaluation, what we’re trying to do is do a bottom-up evaluation, giving employees who come on a day to day—who do the grunt work basically—to evaluate their supervisors,” she said.
Since the implementation of the new policy, CPA management has since been tasked to develop a platform in which these evaluations can be done online and anonymously.
“Obviously there’s going to be some discomfort, and some issues with being candid when you don’t have system where you can do it anonymously. So, we’ve tasked management with creating an online platform to be able to make those evaluations,” said King-Hinds.
“We have been talking about this for a while, since last year. This conversation started off last year but there was just a lot going on. So we are now tackling this issue,” she added.
King-Hinds clarified that this evaluation is not meant to get people fired, but to help supervisors grow and further develop.
“This is not a tool to put people down or put them out on the street. This is a tool to help them grow, develop, and hold ourselves accountable,” she said. “If supervisors get a low evaluation, we’re not here to put people down, we’re here to grow and develop them and provide them the tools to grow. If they’re not fit for the position, then maybe we can put them in an area where they’re best suited so that they can feel good about the work they are doing.”
