Multi Source Feedback

In human resources, multi source feedback also known as 360-degree feedback, multi-rater feedback, or multi source assessment, is feedback about the performance of an employee that comes from members of an employee’s immediate work circle. In most cases, 360 degree feedback will include self-evaluation and direct feedback from an employee’s subordinates, peers, supervisor(s) and even feedback from external sources, such as customers and suppliers.

It may be contrasted with “traditional performance appraisal” where the employees are most often reviewed only by their managers, which is sometimes considered as a less objective process.