Management Development - Reviews & Appraisals

Management Development - Reviews & Appraisals

Introduction

Management development is used so that they the company can motivate

their staff, so that the performance of their workforce will be

improved.

Therefore it is used to improve the performance of the business so

that their share price increases and they will attract more

shareholders and their sales and profits will be increased, this will

also mean that the shareholders will give paid good dividends.

Due to that happening their stakeholders will be showing more interest

in the business, which means that they will be able to employ staff

more easily so that they will have a wider range of candidates to

choose from so they can employee a larger range of highly skilled

staff.

Purpose of appraisal schemes

As it is said that the main problem that arises with an appraisal

scheme is the confusion over the objectives that are set.

Mainly it can be said that an appraisal scheme is used to develop

staff by giving information for progression and resource planning, as

well as being able to make out and state the weaknesses of

performance.

It helps to provide data that can relate to the salary that a member

of staff should be paid and the improvements and chances that need to

be made to staff to meet the required standards and improve them for

the future.

As well as helping to show whether the staff should have

training/career planning and if so what they need in relation to it

and how the communication can be improved between the manager and

member of staff, especially in relation to general feedback.

Methods of Reviewing and appraisal schemes

It has been said that appraisals are the most suitable methods of

reviewing employees for management and supervisory staff.

Increasingly clerical, secretarial and manual staffs with skilled or

technical jobs are now also being appraised.

There are many different people within a business who may carry out an

appraisal; the appraisers are sometimes called raters. Below I have

shown a list of the people who may carry out an employee’s appraisal,

with explanation about them ad why they would be chosen: -

Self-appraisal

This is quite a new idea to the process of development. It is not a

highly used form of reviewing.

With self-appraisal’s, which is pretty self explanatory, the member of

staff will perform a self-analysis in the traditional appraisal

schemes, although there is the involvement of the superior whose

decision officially counts.

The ratings that the employee gives themselves maybe changed, but only

in the light of the workers notes.

Peer-appraisal

These are said to be the majority of the time a very reliable method