Recognition As Part Of Performance Management

Performance Management

Good Performance Management processes should contain critical opportunities for recognition and therefore motivation.

Performance Management and Appraisal

Performance Management is a system developed out of the best practice of top-performing organisations to provide managers with a structured approach to the key retention criteria.

Simplistically, most people will feel motivated and will want to stay in their job if their manager:

Pays attention to their work provides them with a job to match their skills, knowledge and experience gives them opportunities to grow and develop judges their performance objectively.

Positive Recognition

Most Performance Management processes contain critical opportunities for recognition.

传统上，年度评估是当年唯一的会议，当时平均或更好的工人会符合其老板讨论绩效。

People with poor performance can and do have a regular audience with their manager; sometimes on a weekly basis.

Your appraisal form is "the" document that is held on file as a record of how good, bad or indifferent you might have been.

Yearly Appraisal

For some, this may be the only time in the year that they receive plaudits and even these may be guarded comments because of the close link in everyone's mind between the appraisal and pay rise despite repeated denials.

Too much praise might raise expectations of a large pay increase.

Poor Performers

Poor performers, however, frequently receive far more than their fair share of management attention throughout the year.

如果注意到我们的员工之一greatest motivators, when did we decide that high performers need less motivation than poor performers?

Of course they don't!

Regular Coaching and Mentoring

Many of the top-performing companies in the world have introduced regular coaching and mentoring sessions to supplement the appraisal system.

This gives all employees a regular, sometimes fortnightly, opportunity to talk about their job, their performance against their objectives, their motivation and their aspirations.

Coaching

Often you can see situations where managers act as spectators. Their behaviour plus the words they use along with their body language would not be out of place at a soccer or baseball match.

They would be sitting in the stands eating a hot dog, throwing down a beer and belting out criticism at the players (their staff) on the field.

There is almost no connection between the manager and the staff other than they just happen to be sitting in the same building.

Manager as Coach

This image is used to point out the profound difference between the 'manager as coach' and the 'manager as spectator'.

A coach works individually with players, helping them to overcome setbacks and obstacles to progress forward.

They know and understand how their players respond to different types of motivation and how their family life and health impact their performance.

The majority of coaching is done on a very frequent basis.

You simply don't wait for the big match to deliver your advice to the team in the way the 'manager as spectator' does.

你的工作版本y closely with everyone in the team, understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your defence and your strikers before they are tested under pressure.

Empowering business using technology and an ancient primaeval technique to create a new employee recognition and reward program.

This article was contributed by Chris Herrmann