Optimise your performance management

摘要

Caroline Chapman looks at how to achieve effective performance management and evaluates why it is such an important part of your business strategy. In these challenging economic times do you want to increase productivity, communication and employee engagement? Do you want to maximise the return you get from your employees? How do you ensure your employees are clear about the company's strategy and objectives? Well one of the best ways of achieving this is a good performance management programme that is well thought out and, most importantly, well executed. Human Resources are a vital part of your business strategy and underpin all that you do and one of HR's most vital roles is that of performance management. It is essential, especially in a small business that your workforce is operating at optimum level. If your employees are not, this could be for a number of reasons: unclear expectations and direction, poor management, communication issues or just an inability to do the role. However without a structured process, how can this be highlighted?