Contemporary issues in performance appraisals important of interview techniques

Contemporary issues in performance appraisals important of interview techniques

Performance appraisal is an evaluation process through which managers evaluate, compare and provide feedback on employee performance to effectively manage human resources in an organization.

Performance management can be defined as a systematic process for improving organizational performance by developing performance of individuals and teams. Performance management is the system through which organization set work goals, determine performance standards, assign and evaluate work, provide performance feedback. Furthermore determine training and development needs and rewards. Often companies train their employees on methods of effective conducting appraisals part of the process is also to train them on effective interview techniques. This is the stage that things may go wrong for the manager and subordinate due to poor preparation and planning of the appraisal.

Some issues and challenges in conducting appraisal interviews how to resolve them and move forward include: -

Prepare for the meeting is vital: Familiarity of the person’s job description, evidence you have. Review your expectations of the person examples are task, roles, amount of work and dead lines acceptable and are they realistic and reasonable. A person’s performance can be affected by lack of support direction, unclear objectives and task 

At the Meeting. Tell the appraisee: why we are meeting of things that have gone wrong, concerns of situations not improved overtime and that we are here to discuss the problems and improve them

Establish if the Employee knows what is expected from them: have copies of job description determine if they know what is expected from their jobs compare with the job description.

Create awareness of the objectives and standards of work: that you agreed during probation or otherwise at staff development meetings.

Conduct the session proactively and positively: Don’t make it sound like a interrogation or fault finding mission.

These are just a few tips on how to effective conduct a effective appraisal interview there are many more. This why some companies regularly conduct training on appraisal systems, Jaldeen(2016) suggested that world class organizations such as google, Microsoft and Accenture constantly review and improve appraisal systems     

References :

Armstrong, M. (2012)Armstrong Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice,12^thedition.

Heathfield, S., (2016). Performance Management Process Checklist Step-by-step to a Performance Management System. https://www.thebalance.com/performance-management-process-checklist-1918852 accessed on 8th Dec 2017 at 5.00 PM

 

Jaldeen, R.M, (2016) Megatrends; Human Resources Management 2020, Published by The

Training Partnership. Series 1, Volume 1, 2016. Available as download online and downloadable http://seniormanagersforum.blogspot.com. Accessed on 08^th Dec 2017 at 5.20 PM