[supergeek133]

There are two aspects to any system like this: 1) The "carrot" - goals you set to rate yourself on to (in theory) get a raise at the end of the year. Or qualify for a promotion.

2) Career feedback.

Now I've found for both of these if any review with your manager take longer than 10-20 minutes, something is amiss. This usually means you don't see eye to eye on either the state of your goals, or your performance.

That being said, without the carrot, I think most people wouldn't execute these at all.