Performance of an Employee

The Success of a Business depends on the effectiveness of the employees. In other words how well the employees perform in order to achieve the Organizational goals.

It is the responsibility of the organization to ensure that the employees perform well in their duties and to develop if there is anybody performing poorly.

The Organization has to link their goals with the goals of the Employee to create effective performance from the workers. For this various type of Organizations adopt various methods according to their requirements to analyze the performance of its employees. It is commonly called as Performance Appraisal.

Performance Appraisal- This is a series of steps taken in order to evaluate the performance of an Individual in the job they carried out, rewarding for the good performance and taking corrective actions for poor performance. This can be carried out Quarterly, bi annually or annually. It is better to have an appraisal bi annually so that an employee has time to correct weak points at the end of the year.

STEPS TO CONDUCT A PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

Step1 – Pre Planning
The employee should e made known with regard to the appraisal and his/her duties and responsibilities. She/he should clearly understand the performance expected from him/her and the time limit.

Step 2- Review of Performance
This should be carried out before the Appraisal meeting in order to ensure that the performance is up to the expected standard and it is in the correct path and if it is not decisions should be taken in order to take it to the correct path.

Step 3- Evaluating the Performance
The actual Performance is evaluated with the expected standard of Performance using relevant facts and data. Also the evaluation is carried out for the actions taken at the review for the weak points.

Step 4 – Appraisal Meeting
This should be an informal but critical meeting with the employee consist around two to three people such as Immediate Superior, Departmental Head and Senior or HR Manager. The Actions to be taken in the future should be discussed along with the strong and weak points. It is very important to reward the good performance and give advice to develop weaknesses.