Design Of The Performance Evaluation System For R&D Employees Of CI Software Company

With technological innovation as the basis of the existence and development of the software enterprises, R&D employees are considered as the most active core resource, the critical point of development and technological innovation, and the core competitiveness in software companies. Performance evaluation on them not only influences their salaries, promotion, rewards and punishment, but also determines company's ability of attracting, holding and encouraging R&D talents, which can affect the core competitiveness and future of software companies.The performance evaluation may be spoiled when managers have an inaccurate understanding of the concept, purpose and significance of Performance evaluation or pay insufficient attention to feed back evaluation results. What's worse, the difficulties of Performance evaluation will be greatly increased when it comes to R&D employees due to its characteristics. Based on relevant theories of human resource and Performance evaluation, the paper gives an analysis of the characteristics of R&D employees and redesigns the Performance evaluation system of R&D employees of CI Software Company by the method of key Performance index, equation scorecard, and 360 feedback evaluation systems. What's more, suggestions are given to the evaluation cycle, evaluation indexes and weights which are determined through AHP and expert evaluation.The paper is of great value for perfecting performance management and enhancing R&D level of CI Company and can also be used as reference to establish and perfect performance evaluation system for other software enterprises.