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Performance appraisal

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   The term performance appraisal refers to the regular review of an employee’s job performance and overall contribution to the company (Adam Hayes, 2020). This will evaluate individual skills, performance, engagement, contribution to work and his or her growth. Also, according to Armstrong, Performance management, if carried out properly, can reward people by recognition through feedback, the provision of opportunities to achieve, the scope to develop skills, and guidance on career paths ( Armstrong, (2017) ). Further Armstrong states that,  all these are non-financial rewards that can encourage job and organizational engagement and make a longer-lasting and more powerful impact than financial rewards such as performance-related pay( Armstrong, 2017 ). Employee get more confident and engage towards his/her work and he/her will perform work with passionate through these kinds of evaluations. I n early 2020 there were 10 analytical chemists in ABC Industrial Laboratories L...

Impact of performance management of employees on organizational performance

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    The performance management starts by identifying the goals an organization should accomplish to remain competitive and profitable. And the managers can identify how they and their employees can support these objectives by successfully completing work. Some of the work completed in all jobs should advance the strategic plan of the organization.   Performance management should provide ·          Direction ·          Freedom to get their work done ·          Encouragement ·          Leading to growth ·          Leading to strategic collaboration (Egan cited in Armstrong, 2017)   So, at minimum performance management should make a clear what the organization expects, document performance for personnel records, identifying areas of success and develo...

Performance management systems and multinational enterprises

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     The practice of international HRM is concerned with the HR activities conducted by a multinational company (MNC) in managing people throughout the organization. These include headquarters staff, home country nationals (HCNs – employees who are nationals of the country in which the subsidiary is based), third country nationals (TCNs – employees in a subsidiary who are nationals of a country other than the parent company’s country), and expatriates (employees assigned to a foreign subsidiary who are nationals of the parent company’s country) ( Armstrong, (2017) . Managing employees is the most difficult task for any organization. Even the employees within the country with same origin and with the same culture people attitudes desires ambitions and expectations   are different. Performance management systems in subsidiaries covering home and third country nationals are the area of HRM, where there is likely to be the most convergence, This means that a system ...

Effectiveness of Performance Management System for Employee Performance Through Engagement

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  Performance management system effectiveness (PMSE) is the measure of alignment between employee and organizational objectives (Armstrong, 2015). Researchers (e.g., Kennerley & Neely, 2003; Kolich, 2009; Tan & Smyrnios, 2006) have substantiated that a careful implementation of an effective PMS ensures this consistency, An effective PMS implementation process necessitates that employees eagerly accept and effectively participate in the goal-setting process ( Awan, Habib, Akhtar , and Naveed,2020 ). According to Forbes employees who are engaged in their work are more likely to be motivated and remain committed to their employer. Engaged employees are well aware about their job roles and the organizational goals that they need to accomplish. Dewettinck and van Dijk (2013) have studied PMSE for its clarity of goals and expectations and the extent to which these were linked with their individual objectives of performance, development, and career enhancement, Their study also in...

Effect of organizational culture on performance management

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  Early researches believed that there is a relationship between organizational culture and organizational performance  (Maamari and Saheb, 2017 ). Magee ( 2002) argues that an organizational culture is inherently connected to organizational practices (Rofcanin et al 2007), it is manifested by the collaborative circumstances between the  different units of organization (Hofstede,2011). Therefore, it clearly understands that the organizational performance depends on the culture. Also, the major challenges for organizational performance are the employee engagement and the culture. By improving the culture of the organization employee engagement will automatically increase. The fact that attitudes are part of the organizational culture and part of the employees’ performance will straighten out the relation between organizational culture and performance ( Maamari and Saheb, 2017). The relation between belief, participation and performance is associated by the organizational c...

Effect of leadership on performance management

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Mgbere (2009) defines leadership as the ability to work with group of people (employees) to achieve a goal (Northouse,2015). He also points to the fact that leadership style affects performance (Sauer,2011), report that leadership competencies consist of eight skills namely, peer, leadership, conflict, resolution, information processing, unstructured decision – making, resource allocation, entrepreneurial and introspection (Maamari and  Saheb, 2017). According to  Maamari and Saheb leadership is a process based on social influence in which the leader strives for the voluntary participation of subordinates to achieve organizational goals. So, a leader definitely plays a crucial role of employee performance management. The leader should be an example to others and the leader should be able to mobilize employees to achieve the goals of the organization by following his example. According to Jong and Harlog, (2007), leadership can be defined as a process of influencing people to g...