HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 2
Human Resources Management
The ultimate aim of managers is to ensure the utmost performance of a firm. This is
possible with proper performance strategies that exclusively evaluate staffs capacity to deliver.
One of the best strategies to ensure an elevation of performance is through performance
appraisal. Performance appraisal is a way of ensuring that the employee’s performance is at par
with set goals of the company and that they have the motivation and updated skills required for
the purpose (Mayberry 2007). With performance appraisal, a firm can ensure that the employees
understand the goals and objectives of the business, understand the diverse skills that each
employee contain and how they can be used to improve productivity, understand employee’s
behavior and how the company can facilitate its staff with relevant resources to keep improving
its skills. Through instigating a consistent performance appraisal process, the firm’s success can
be reinforced.
Despite the many processes business develops of ensuring a viable performance review
strategy; there are key elements that every business must contain. First, a business must ensure
that it sets clear goals and objectives which must be clearly and articulately shared with every
employee. One way of ensuring that all staff is on par with the goals and objectives is through
involving the staff in the goal setting process. Then, each employee with being entitled to
specific roles that help meets the set goals of the company. To ensure that proper performance of
the roles assigned to the employees, constant measuring of the staff progress is fundamental. The
more frequent the evaluation process is, the easier it is to track each staff’s productivity. It will
also be easy to identify challenges and deal with them.
Even through having proper appraisal strategy is fundamental, there can still be instances
of poor performance. Gesme (2011) concede that performance is a function of both skills and
motivation. Thus, once cannot properly function without the other. It is the role of the manager
to ensure that the employees have both of the skills without which the company is bound to fail.
In terms of motivation, most companies conform to external ways of motivation such as rewards
and punishment. Althoughextrinsic motivation is vital, it may not lead to an utmost growth of the
company. Consequently, managers must identify ways to attract an intrinsic motivation of its
employees, which coincide with the rewards provided. Among that, entails ensuring that the
employee’s skills are constantly developed and allowing the staff to engage in decision making
especially in their area of expertise. That way, the employee’s will be more enthusiastic about
their work when they are deeply involved in the company’s endeavors. At the same time,
companies do have staff that consistently perfume to their best capacity. Managers need to
recognize these individuals through rewards mechanism such as an increase in salary, promotion
to a higher position. More importantly, engaging the higher performing individual in vital events
that can help the firm grow can also help them further advance themselves to levels that can
benefit the country.
Technological stances make it easy for both managers and employees to identify ways to
improve performance. Through platforms such as youtube, a company can learn from other
performing companies, ways of improving productivity. At the same time, numerous firms that
specialize in advancing productivity in companies have been created and they are can greatly
advance productivity if inculcated into the already existing strategies by the company.
