There has to be some type of system for recognizing exceptional performance and also not recognizing weak performance. The problem is this becomes a beauty contest rather than a recognition system. Then throw in biased favoritism resulting from the Hi-Pot system, management incompetence (recognizing and promoting brown nosers rather than those speaking truth) and a lack of a post-audit feedback system (leadership 101 searches to repeat excellence and not repeat poor performance, instead we recognize the best liars to get their budgets and projects approved) and VOILA we have a corrupt horrific rating system.
Straight to the point, @3xzl+1jCueEQy.