In todays complex world of human resource and payroll management
systems, very often managers overlook the importance of evaluating the
employees’ performance. It is important to make time for this critical
process of evaluation employees on their goals, expectations,
achievements of those goals and at the same time understand the level of
employee performance, over a period of time, so his/her services can be
utilized in the maximum productive way possible.
- Keep it simple for the purpose of objectivity
It is important to keep the whole evaluation process simple, yet
objective and quantifiable, having a lengthy bureaucratic process of
endless forms will over ride the idea and only increase paperwork
getting no ROI in your world of hr and payroll.
- The process
There are many processes which are used for evaluating employees from
single forms to multiple pages, we will just look at a simple case of
workflow based process of evaluating employees
- Define Performance Area
It is important to define the major areas an employee is expected to
be reviewed on, e.g. a sales person may be reviewed by the way he writes
proposals or the number of client meetings held in a month or a
quarter.
- Define clear single sentence objectives
Once it is clear what your employee has to focus on, you can then, be
precise of what the company or manager is expecting from that employee,
e.g. closing one single deal for 6 proposals sent to customers
- Agree on objectives
Once the definition is setup, it is important to get the employee to
review the objectives against each performance area, make sure the
expectation is understood by the employee, to avoid any
misunderstandings.
- Self Evaluation
Give a chance to the employee to self evaluate his performance, this
will create a kind of self responsibility, also will give an idea of how
the employee thinks of his performance compare his/her own performance
over a period of time.
- Workflow based approach
Have a proper workflow defined where employee will have full
visibility of what managers think of them, so they can embark on a path
of self improvement, thereby enhancing their productivity, in turn
giving more output being the same person.
Having said that, HR Chronicle is most flexible and suitable to adapt
to your HR and Payroll processes, you can design your evaluation
process the way you like. Whether you want to do a single form based
evaluation or a multiple form based or workflow based evaluation
mechanism, we can do it all.
