eSign PPT for HR Safe

ESign PPT for HR Safe

[Music] HR basics is a series of short lessons designed to highlight what you need to know about a particular human resource management topic in today's HR basics we explore performance management discussing the development of great tools ensuring feedback and the critical role of documentation performance management refers to the processes that ensure an organization connects mission with the work of its employees performance management involves two related activities one evaluating the performance of employees against the standards set for them and two helping them develop action plans to improve their performance outcomes of effective performance management include clarifying job responsibilities and expectations enhancing individual and group productivity developing employee capabilities through effective feedback and coaching driving behavior to align the organization's values goals and strategy providing the basis for making human resource decisions and finally improving communication between employees and managers performance management tools include appraisal forms oftentimes referred to as performance reviews or other terms your performance tools must be relevant to organizational outcomes that you seek to achieve appraisal forms and process documents must be tailored to an organization's mission vision and values when developing a performance evaluation form do your homework find evaluation forms from similar organizations or organizations that share your philosophy of performance management review of these characteristics can help you develop great forms that are tailored to your organization competency based performance appraisals make a clear connection between employee behaviors their knowledge skills and abilities and the mission vision and values of your organization individual and team competencies should be rated against organizational values again make sure to reinforce your organizational language and terminology for all aspects of the process and make specific reference to competencies values and descriptions of those things most important to your organization to connect mission to work every performance appraisal tool should be directly tied to an employee's job description it's up to you to decide what elements should be included in your performance appraisal tools however there are standard elements of performance tools that every organization should consider they're listed here first demographic information identifying employees then a standardized rating scales selected to reflect the goals of your organization most commonly a clear five-point scale job-related assessment of performance based on specific job-related criterias and concrete examples of performance issues and then fourth self evaluation encouraging active participation of employees engaging them in their part in the process five SMART goals providing for clear definition and follow-through desired outcome and sixth and finally employee development ensuring the interactive process regarding training and employee growth these standard elements will create a user-friendly and useful a performance appraisal tool for your organization now let's talk about feedback which is essential to any strong performance management system both positive and constructive feedback should occur as soon as possible no performance feedback whether it be positive or negative should be left to an annual performance meeting I often say there should be no surprises in these meetings it's critical to...