Beyond Meritocracy: 6 Ways IT Employee Performance Evaluations Are Changing

3. Gamification as Performance Incentive

Rowan says there's a way IT can use gamification to track employee performance. This might involve incentives such as tokens at the company store or gift cards that encourage employees to post their successes and tasks completed. Bersin says large companies need to think about more than compensation packages and offer other rewards for good performance. Of course, this ties right into employee retention as a secondary benefit.

4. 360-degree Feedback for Less Subjective Judgment

Most large organizations already use 360-degree feedback, a process of getting input from those who work with an employee as well as directly from the employee, yet many companies make this step secondary to the main performance review.

"Making subjective judgments based on one person's perception or opinion is fraught with bias," says Angelo Kinicki, professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He suggests getting wider input, adding, "The use of 360-degree feedback is a good way to accomplish this part of an employee's evaluation."