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Performance Management System: Optimize Deterioration Employee Performance

By Huntsends

Various factors are affecting the employees' productivity that is to be dealt with. Companies may not have the idea of until they realize the amount of loss it has already done or the manager analyses the performance by keeping the verbal track of the employees' activities. The deterioration of the employees' performance is a big worry as it has the direct impact on the company's growth. It also has the impact on the investments the company is doing on and for the employee to get the expected outputs. Backtracking the scenario, back then, the SMEs and startups do not consider it worthy of having a performance management system; they favoured the conventional systems and stopgaps to manage the lesser number of employee just to save the investment. Having said that the loss incubated over a span is due to the use of a conventional system which was left unrealized. With the increase in the use of the advancement oriented and technically efficient systems and the awareness of the employees performing the implementation of the performance management system increased. The system provides the facilities SMEs that giants own to manage their employees based on pay per employees. It makes the companies own a comprehensive performance management system regardless of the number of employees.

Finding the Hints of Ineffective Performance Management

The performance of the employee itself hints about the effect of poor performance management. The efforts of the employees are not giving fruitful outputs; frustration seems to invade the workplace, the list of projects delivered late, lack of employee engagement, lack of progress in the employees' performance and more. These scenarios are the result of the efficient performance management that the manager and employer need to take note of and resolve to reduce the wastage of time and money. It also has the impact on the internal business relationship due to the induced stress.

Implementing the Well-suited Performance Management System

Some situations have arisen when the company are already owning a performance management system to manage and enhance the performance of the employee, but it was found that it was not fruitful and also causing the loss of money invested in it and the outputs were not worthy enough of the investment. The requirements of the company and the selected performance management software are not aligned. First and foremost thing the company need to do is to enlist the requirement of the company and also the trends that would be fruitful for the company to increase the impact of the system selected on the workplace and employee. It is necessary as there are thousands of systems available to choose from, not all are well suited for the company.

Performance management today is facilitated with various functionalities and technologies that benefit the organization and streamlines the process - starting with the employee goal management, performance tracking, KRA/KPI, integration with payroll and more. The goals are the heart of employees performance as they motivate the employees to keep going. The factor that is attractive about the system is it allows the employees to determine the goals in the system as per their capabilities. Further, the manager needs to keep track of the project's progress and also the employees' performance. The systems itself keeps track of the employees' goal achievements and defines the key result area(KRA) and key performance indicator(KPI). At last, paying the employees accurately based on their performance is enables with the integration feature of the system which links the data of the employees' performance automatically when calculation salary.

Employee Recognition

The manager needs to provide recognition to the employee of the work they have done, either in terms of a round of applause, gift, incentive or appraisal. These monetary and non-monetary benefits given to the employees give them the sense of self-satisfaction. The performance management system makes the recognition fair by providing accurate data to the managers to makes the correct decision. It also simplifies the process of employee appraisal as easy as the manager enough and accurate data of the employees' performance when conducting the yearly reviews. The manager can easily fetch the employees out who have made a notable contribution to the growth of the company by enhancing their performance.


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