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Organisations constantly strive to standardise their administrative processes and tools to improve their overall efficiency. But are the organisations doing performance review right? Here are a few ways to find out!
Before evaluating your performance review practices, let’s have a quick understanding of what performance management actually is.
Performance management is the process of establishing a motivating work culture in an organisation, where employees and managers constantly review themselves and work towards a common organisational goal.
What happens in an organisation that doesn’t have a performance management system? It fails to motivate its employees and leaves them directionless and disengaged. A system helps an organisation build a skilled and efficient workforce which increases its overall productivity.
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Let’s talk about how a properly managed performance management system can help an organisation. An effective system aims to improve performances at team, individual and overall organisational level. It also increases the productivity of your organisation by improving employee morale and creating loyalty.
But it is important to have the right tools to implement the system in the organisation without which the entire process turns into a burden.
It is crucial for organisations to have an effective performance management system. But no matter how good the system is, its success depends on the managers who implement it.
The planning stage comes first. Here, you define individual goals & strategies clearly and communicate them organisation-wide so that your employees understand that meeting their individual goals contributes to the organisational goals.
Coordinate with your employees before setting up their individual goals and make sure that the goals are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound).
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After you define the goals and strategies for your employees, you should constantly keep track of their improvements and take care of their developmental needs. Monitoring continually means providing ongoing feedback and consistently measuring employee performance.
It helps you check if the employees are meeting their goals as planned.
Rating means evaluating employees based on their performance standards. Though this step is a part of monitoring and giving feedback, it is considered as a more formal way to evaluate employee performance. It also helps managers know who their best employees are.
Rating employees at regular intervals helps them improve themselves. It also helps managers look at and compare performances over time or across a set of employees.
Effective managers understand the importance of rewarding employees who perform well. Employees feel empowered and motivated when their work is recognised.
This leads to increased productivity in the organisation. So reward the employees who meet your expectations or exceed your expectations.
Keep upgrading the goals & strategies at regular intervals. If your employees feel that their existing goals seem unattainable or that they have a negative impact on the organisational work culture, then it is time to coordinate with your employees and change them.
If you wish to know how Engagedly can help you implement an effective performance management system in your organisation, just fill up the form below and give us a shout. We will organise a demo for you.
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