Performance Management Help Employees ???








Performance management is important for an organization, as it helps organizations ensuring employees are working hard to contribute to achieving the organization's mission and objectives. Performance management sets expectations for employee performance and motivates employees to work hard in ways that is expected by the organization. Moreover, performance management system provides a completed and professional management process for organizations to assess the performance results of organizations and employees. Employee performance could be expected, assessed and encouraged. Macky and Johnson (2000) said that the importance of performance management system is on continuously improving organizational performance, and this is achieved by improved individual employee performance. Therefore, improving employee performance by using performance management system is a way to improve organizational performance.

According to Armstrong (2006), the performance management process should be formally reviewed once or twice a year in order to have a fair knowledge of key performances and development issues. Most of the modern era organizations are presently conducting midyear reviews in addition to the yearend reviews in order to look forward what needs to be done by the employees to achieve organizational goals during the stipulated time frame. 

Performance management is a process for ensuring employees focus on their work in ways that contribute to achieving the organization's mission is indispensable for a business organization. Actually, performance management includes various types or system. Performance management system is a kind of performance management forms. Supervisors and managers are responsible for managing the performance of their employees. Each organization's policy should specify how the performance management system will be carried out. Organizations should adopt performance management practices that are consistent with the requirements of this policy and that best fit the nature of the work performed and the mission of the organization.

                                    Performance Management Process Steps (Amherstedu, 2019).


A performance management system includes the following actions (Thebalancecareerscom, 2019)


  • Develop clear job descriptions using an employee recruitment plan that identifies the selection team.
  • Recruit potential employees and select the most qualified to participate in interviews onsite.
  • Conduct interviews to narrow down your pool of candidates.
  • Hold multiple additional meetings, as needed, to get to know your candidates' strengths, weaknesses, and abilities to contribute what you need. Use potential employee testing and assignments where they make sense for the position that you are filling.
  • Select appropriate people using a comprehensive employee selection process to identify the most qualified candidate who has the best cultural fit and job fit that you need.
  • Offer your selected candidate the job and negotiate the terms and conditions of employment including salary, benefits, paid time off, and other organizational perks.
  • Welcome the new employee to your organization.
  • Provide effective new employee orientation, assign a mentor, and integrate your new employee into the organization and its culture.
  • Negotiate requirements and accomplishment-based performance standards, outcomes, and measures between the employee and his or her new manager.
  • Provide ongoing education and training as needed.
  • Provide on-going coaching and feedback.
  • Conduct quarterly performance development planning discussions.
  • Design effective compensation and recognition systems that reward people for their ongoing contributions.
  • Provide promotional/career development opportunities including lateral moves, transfers, and job shadowing for staff.
  • Assist with exit interviews to understand the reason  why valued employees leave the organization.

References

Armstrong, M. (2006). A Handbook of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE. 10th ed. London and Philadelphia: Kogan Page.

Macky,K.,& Johnson, G. (2000).The strategic Management of Human Resources in New Zealand.Auckland, New Zealand: Irwin/McGraw-Hill

Amherstedu. 2019. Amherstedu. [Online]. [3 October 2019].
Available from: https://www.amherst.edu/offices/human_resources/performancemanagement/resourcespmp

Thebalancecareerscom. 2019. The Balance Careers. [Online]. [3 October 2019].
Available from: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/performance-management-1918226


Comments

  1. Performance management system should ensure the achievement of overall organizational goals & objectives while aligning them with employees goals.Good job Upendra .

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  2. Performance Management helps to boost Employee Engagement and Productivity. Engaged employees stay longer, actively involve themselves in the workplace and produce better results. Hence its helps organization's life. Good luck. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Performance Management helps to boost Employee Engagement and Productivity and also not using proper ways can change attitude of best employers too.

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  4. Performance management sets expectations for employee performance and motivates employees to work hard in ways that is expected by the organization.Good job Upendra .

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  5. To handle the most valuable asset of an organization it is essential to implement a proper performance management system. Settling expectation and motivation organizations can achieve their goals through performance management. And we need a performance management with an ongoing process with continues feedback for a better output. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. A healthy performance management should carry all the aspects that both employee and employer needs to focus. Results will be depend on how they perform their assignments. Good job.

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  7. The Blog defined the term "performance management" well. Since the blog arguing whether the performance management system helping or not what is your conclusion on that?

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  8. Performance management is vital for organizations to retain the talented employees. I believe in Sri Lanka poor performance management is the main reason for staff turnover.

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