I found out recently that I'm involved in an MRR. I'm in HBT. Can someone enlighten me as to what an MRR is and should I be concerned (above the usual level)?
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Oh, you're screwed. Forced stacked ranking and someone has to be at the bottom.
MRR can be fair but likely isn't. It's just a way to get rid of people, the goal is higher paid people out and replace with new people at lower pay if needed. They don't want a individual contributor to stay in the same job 15-20 years anymore. You can be in a group where everyone does a lot of work and is knowledgeable; someone still has to be on the bottom. This can be hard on the manager too as could be a decent person told to do something that doesn't seem right.
Regarding HR being outsourced, I thought most of it already was. I was laid off 18 months ago and at my out brief meeting I was with a young manager who was doing his first ever layoff, was nervous and wasn't sure what to do and a HR person who was from an outsource group (non Honeywell badge), was new to Honeywell (like a few weeks) and was walking me through the legal forms I had to sign. His was instructed to show me the 1-800 number to call for any question I had. I applied for a few jobs the last few years and the HR person working it was always a temp.
So this is how it works. I work for one manager. If he isn't totally clueless he might even know what I work on or what my contributions are. Then there are probably a dozen other managers in this Mafia, er I mean MRR, meeting. They don't know me from Adam or what I do and they get to rank me? In the world that is Honeywell, I guess that sounds fair. They don't know what I do but for sure they know my age and my hair color (grey).
In response to Zigaveldt B Schtoonk: HR Honeywell Aero Phoenix is too busy sleeping around to be reading these posts!
How did u find out u are MRR
You're gone pal. Start packing.
MRR = Management Resource Review
I've read all the responses and still don't know what "MRR" means. Can someone just post the definition?
The HR dept at Honeywell in Phoenix has their heads up their asses. If any function needs to be outsourced, it's that pathetic, incompetent group! Sure hope they read this!!
I'm no longer at Hon due to WFH policy changes but..... management and even supervisors will never admit to ranking and stacking employees but there were a couple of managers that told me they racked and stacked employees snd no matter how good the group was, they had to place at least one at the bottom 10%. My gutless manager that thought she was in leadership swore there was no such system but there was and is.
So glad to be out of that hole. This was Phx. Engine. Site
The MRR is a politics based method to promote managers' buddies. It helps if the manager doing your review is in the same facility. The first people to get hammered by the MRR are off site. Good luck... The MRR is a forced ranking totem pole method... There are quotas but Honeywell HR will never admit to them...
It doesn't matter what 'brilliant' system they come up with for evaluating/compensating employees, it's all still completely dependent on the integrity, impartiality and fairness of your manager. If he/she is prejudiced, unconscionable, incompetent, or simply ignorant, then you're screwed, no matter what you do. And if you protest it's for the worse.
It is a process in which managers review and rate the people in their organization, including succession plan and career opportunities, and has been in place for at least two decades. Designations are high achievers, promotable individuals, valued contributors, performers who need to improve, and those who need to be managed out of the organization. That's in addition to the 9 block rating. In an honest and well thought out process, it would be used to identify career opportunities and determine succession plans as people move. Depending on your manager and organization, this exercise might just be a check in the box for anyone below the top levels of the company. With the exodus of key talent in Aerospace during the past year, huge parts of their succession plan is in shambles. And yes, it is used to help reduce headcount by designating a bottom 10% each year, but that has to be harder to do when so many people have left. Means that some good people who are still there could be marked as poor performers.
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MRR = My Rectal Reamer
MRR is Honeywell's way of looking at career progression based on inputs from manager level team, however within Aero it is also used to weed out non-desirables. It can used as a tool to force good members of your team into the "elbow" just to make a quota, just like my site manager told me, "Not everyone can be good, there are some that need improvement". The next step after a site level MRR is at the director level MRR, if you not in the brown nosing group you will be in the "elbow quota" sometime in the future. Good luck with that!
promote political insiders that are blessed in the MRR process, a secret selection process that secretly ranks people, and the employee is not allowed to know his/her ranking, so no way to know you are being discriminated against.
Management Rectal Repository. You shold definitely be concerned.