Lecture 2
Lecture 2
Leadership
Lecture Week 8
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In today’s session…
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You, HR & Managing Performance
• Managing Performance
• A range of activities designed
to motivate and encourage
employees to work towards
objectives that are in line with
organizational goals • Performance Management
• Pro-active processes • Looks at individual employee
performance and includes
activities such as development,
absence management control,
disciplinaries, progression
• Re-active responses
Managing Performance
‘Getting the best from people’ means making sure they are
doing
• Performance appraisal
• One to ones – reviews
• Promotion opportunities
• Personal Development opportunities
• Objective setting
• Managing under-performance
• Motivational theory
Objective Setting
• Setting objectives helps a company to progress
and plan for the future.
• Objective setting is the planning and research
management does in order to increase
employee skills and assess and improve
performance.
• Understanding objective setting can help
improve a company's capability, from the
individual to the departmental level.
Cont
• Objective setting is when an organization plans
goals and how to meet them on a realistic
timescale.
• Objectives help define what each department's
and employee's responsibilities are within the
organization.
• Setting objectives is part of establishing
expectations for employees and managing them,
which is also called the performance
management process.
Types Objectives
• Every role has an objective, which is usually part
of the role's job description.
• Example, a server's role and role objective are
to serve customers in order to ensure customer
satisfaction.
• Role objectives state what you need to do and
why it's important.
• Performance standards, such as speed and
accuracy, help evaluate role objectives
Target Objectives