Improving Employee Performance

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Snell, Morris and Bohlander (2016) talks about employment management is considered to be very important to an organization. Assessing why an employee is not performing well is one of the hardest part of performance management. It can be easy to see those employees who are not performing up to part, it is not as easy to diagnose the reason why the employee is performing poorly. Reasons such as motivation, ability, and external constraints, and without a correct diagnosis, it is somewhat impossible to fix the problem (p. 335). Poor performance should be diagnosed by the employee supervisor has soon as they see a problem exist. First by comparing the various performance measures, this will allow me to get an idea of the reason for the performance …show more content…

4. Quality of work, thoroughness, neatness, and accuracy of work. Volume of work, quality of acceptable work. With the graphic rating scale it is important that sufficient space is provided for comments on the behavior associated with each scale. It is stated that the comments help to improve the accuracy of the evaluations because they require the rater to think based on observable employees behaviors while providing specific examples to discuss with the employees (p. 317-318). Mixed standard scales is another means I would use to diagnosis the poor performance of employees. This scale is considered a modification of the basic rating scale method. This method gives three specific descriptions of each trait which reflect three levels of performance such as superior, average, and inferior. After the descriptions have been written for each trait then they are sequenced randomly to form the mixed standard scale it indicate whether an employee performance is above (1), or equal to (0) and or lower than (2)( p 320). Another approach would be the behaviorally anchored rating scale which is also known as BARS this scale will give me as a supervisor an idea related to the problems dealing with the performance of the …show more content…

Expert view author Leslie Allan (2017) outline tools to diagnose performance issues. He suggest formal performance appraisals, disciplinary interviews, counseling sessions, feedback sessions can be used to help employers to identify those areas that pose a problem with the employees performance (2017). The tools that Leslie Allan outlined can be incorporated along with the other means of measuring to help me diagnose the poor performance of employees. According to Liden, Mitchell, and Maslyn (1998) based on a study they revealed that half of “441 participants responded to poor performance by invoking a policy, and the remaining participants reported that they would deal with each case related to performance individually by diagnosing the problem and developing a response. They also stated that policy users are more concerned with their own interest, and those that are dealing with the performance issues on an individual basis were more concerned with whether or not they were being fair” (p. 245). It is important to be fair and to use the necessary tools in order to assure that all policies and procedures are being followed in a fair and ethical manner. Once I have diagnosed those issues that are causing the

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